The Orbit's Orbit
Installation Rendering
©Matilde Cassani Studio/Salone del Mobile.Milano
The Orbit’s Orbit.
The Salone del Mobile.Milano, in collaboration with West Bund Art & Design, presents a performative installation by the artist Matilde Cassani in Shanghai
The Salone del Mobile.Milano is holding an extraordinary event devoted to Italian design and a talk between Chinese and Italian designers in the new surroundings of The Orbit, the recently-completed building designed by Heatherwick Studio. The event is intended to underscore the importance of dialogue between different cultures and design visions and confirm the prominence of this particular market for Made in Italy.
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The Orbit’s Orbit:
The Orbit's Orbit
Installation Rendering
©Matilde Cassani Studio/Salone del Mobile.Milano
a performative installation devoted to Italian design by Matilde Cassani
From 8th to 10th November, the Salone del Mobile.Milano will be holding its second great international event in China, a strategic market that ranked 7th in the top 25 export destinations for the wood-furniture supply chain in 2023, offering interesting business opportunities for Made in Italy. At the end of the year, Italy was thus confirmed as the leading furniture exporter to China, with a value of 479.01 million euros. This interest was confirmed at the 2024 edition of the 2024 edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milano, which – following the lengthy post-pandemic transition – saw China back in leading place in terms of visitor numbers. The Salone, accompanied by the ITA – Italian Trade Agency, has chosen to make its return to China at and with West Bund Art & Design – its Partner for the occasion – a reference point in Shanghai's cultural scene, attracting galleries and visitors from all over the world: a prestigious event, a crossroads of the Chinese contemporary art system, which shares with the Salone the focus on innovation, creativity and being the ideal platform to explore the intersections between the two worlds.
This unique and visionary event, held at the futuristic property of the West Bund Central and designed by the architect Thomas Heatherwick, the Orbit blends design, art and culture into an immersive, powerfully impactful scenic and emotional experience. Inside the exhibition space, The Orbit’s Orbit: a performative installation devoted to Italian design and created by the artist Matilde Cassani – enlisted for her ability to move across the bounds of architecture, art and design – will come to life with recurring performances, demanding the participation of visitors invited to experience the installation and flesh out the suggestions proffered. The work is characterised by concentric spirals occupied by iconic products that embody the excellence of Italian design, and create an organic and constantly evolving structure. The exhibition area evokes a radial city playing host to an urban party, enlivened not just by the spatial mobility of the locals/spectators, but also and especially by an ideal and cultural mobility. The performers, walking in a single direction, take possession of the spaces occupied by design and turn them into an inhabited interior. Cassani’s work was directly inspired by The Orbit, by its shape, its semantic resonances and its expressive qualities. The space has become a repository of meaning, a virtual score played out by the powerful presence of furnishings by more than 30 exhibiting brands, the ballet dancers and the expertly choreographed visitors.
When & Where
8th – 10th November 2024
8th November: 1pm – 6pm
9th November: 12pm – 6pm
10th November: 12pm – 6pm
ORBIT
3299 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai
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The registration system is open on Oct.20th
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Programme
The Orbit's Orbit
Installation Rendering
©Matilde Cassani Studio/Salone del Mobile.Milano
Programme
Friday 8th November
2pm - 4pm
Art Waterfront International Forum
Topic: City, Design and Sustainability
Speakers
Alan Chan, Designer
Ma Yansong, Founding Partner of MAD Architects
Maria Porro, President of the Salone del Mobile.Milano
Ute Meta Bauer, Curator, Professor of contemporary art and the director of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Singapore, Artistic Director of the 3rd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Xu Bo, Associate Director and Head of Legal of China Property Hongkong Land
Moderator:
Cao Dan, President of Meta Media Art+/ Meta Media Group, Publisher of The Art Newspaper Chinese, Art Review China & LEAP
By invitation only
Saturday 9th November
2pm - 4pm
AD100 YOUNG Talk
In collaboration with AD China
Topic: Thinking and Anti-thinking
Speakers
Maria Porro, President of the Salone del Mobile.Milano
Marva Griffin Wilshire, Curator and Founder of SaloneSatellite
André Fu, founder of André Fu Studio and André Fu Living
Jin Qiuye, architect, scholar, critic, founder of Jin Architects
2024 AD100 YOUNG talents
Moderators
Beryl Hsu, Editor in Chief, AD China
Annalisa Rosso, Editorial Director & Cultural Events Advisor of the Salone del Mobile.Milano
6pm - 8pm
AD100 YOUNG Award Party
By Invitation ONLY
Sunday 10th November
2pm - 3pm
When Design Meets Art. A Conversation Between Italy and China
Curated by Annalisa Rosso, Editorial Director & Cultural Events Advisor of the Salone del Mobile.Milano
Speakers
Wu Bin, Designer
Feng Cao, Founder of 20C Gallery, Collector, Aesthetic Communicator
Matilde Cassani, Artist
MORE SPEAKERS TO BE CONFIRMED
Moderator:
Wang Xu, Design Media Expert
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