Eight stories, eight projects, eight womens. “I Fiori della Materia” is the collective exhibition part of “In Women’s Hands” the Superstudio’s programme which combines professional designers attentive to material and their processing. An in-depth study of their research, passion and creative power but also choices, paths and challenges they have faced in life. On show until October 29 to discover female creativity, including unconventional works and unpublished stories.
Focus on Isabella Angelantoni Geiger.
"I was born in Milan 55 years ago and after having wandered for years, in 2014, I went back to my beloved city; I currently reside here with my three wonderful children. My aptitude for drawing and fate, supported in this by my mother’s will, led me to study in a Milanese art high school, where I graduated in 1983. From then the step towards Politecnico di Milano was short; I graduated from Architecture Department, with a thesis on urban design, my thesis advisor, Professor Belgiojoso. I worked in his studio for a few years. The mood in Via dei Chiostri was still imbued with E.N.Rogers teachings, one of the studio’s founders, who claimed, speaking of architect’s profession: "... our approach is try to grasp the deepest reality and translate it into poetic acts." Architecture and sculpture, for affinity reasons, have always maintained a dialogue between them; time and space are elements that lead them to converge. This is where I found my 'place in the world': a place halfway between sculpture and architecture. My story is in fact a succession of places, cities and countries; of unknown and distant spaces that I have tamed, really an attempt to make them domestic spaces. Then the move to an extra-European country made my profession difficult, or even impossible. No longer able to practice my job, I channeled my energies, as well as in the growth of my children, in my primary, and ever-present, passion that is drawing. In those years, in Saudi Arabia, I combined to this the realization of textile works. By now sculpture has taken over everything else. I just signed up for Accademia di Brera: you have to go to the source to regenerate. "