Rosa Bertoli (Wallpaper)
Rob Wilkes (We-heart.com)
Costas Voyatzis (Yatzer.com)
Maha Majzoub (Curve Magazine)
Body Building
“Body Building is a magnifying glass for examining and understanding one of our greatest contemporary obsessions: mens sana in corpore sano? The association of precious and sophisticated materials with the basic and unrefined elements that constitute the commonplace apparatus found in any run of the mill gym (or more aptly, in an imaginary “anti-gym”) seems like ready- made fragments animated by that irony typical of when two unknown universes, light-years apart, meet: the gym and the home environment. The objects are dissected and studied, designed to elude the perception of the viewer, to discover a world obsessed by the mania of exercise but also of the obsession with perfect manufacture – again a characteristic that distinguishes the work of the Milanese duo. The contrast between the discipline and effort, which gym gear usually at first glance suggests, is here overruled by the pure aesthetic enjoyment of the objects themselves. Though on the surface these objects maintain the clearest characteristics of their distant cousins – those of regular pieces of gym equipment – they elude this first impression and become objects conceived for the utmost leisure.”
Maria Cristina Didero