Two dark, large, deep, attentive female eyes, accentuated by a mass of equally dark hair that falls free alongside an imaginary face: this is the interpretation that Flavio Lucchini offers, in the context of the collective art project "Vision 47”, to two textile armchairs from the Pila 47 series, conceived by product designers Paolo Emanuele Nava and Luca Maria Arosio and made by Rubelli Casa, in collaboration con Oblong Contemporary Art Gallery.
The "sights" are hand-painted with acrylic colors directly on the fabric of two samples of these cylindrical armchairs with modular seats, built entirely fast "handmade" and with natural materials by a leading company in the sector of fabrics and furnishing accessories. as well as pieces of furniture. Le “Pila by Flavio Lucchini” materialize in immediate terms the union between aesthetics and product, the symbiosis that can be achieved between decor and functionality.
Absolute black on natural white: the graphic simplicity that the artist chooses for this project ideally brings the two armchairs closer to his most recent works, "My Memories", the series of almost a hundred "non-portraits", traced with fast brushstrokes, both in technicolor and in black/white, in these first months of 2023. We are talking about faces, therefore of memories, impressions, imaginative evocations of women whom Lucchini has known, met or simply seen for a few minutes during the his life.
The two armchairs are an integral part of the exhibition “Preview. My Memories”, scheduled at the FLA-FlavioLucchiniArt Museum, in the Superstudio Più area, in Via Tortona 27, from 11 to 16 April, during the Milan Art Week and again from 17 to 23 of the month, on the occasion of the week dedicated to design as well as during the entire Summer. As if they were two more "non-portraits", which give identity to the textile architectures of the "Vision 47" project by Nava+Arosio.