LUCE 339 | PREVIEW


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339

Year 60
March 2022

Magazine founded by AIDI in 1962
Editor-in-chief Silvano Oldani

In this issue:

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ASSOCIATIONS

ADI DESIGN MUSEUM, A WORKSHOP OF IDEAS ON ITALIAN DESIGN CULTURE. THE MEETING WITH ADI PRESIDENT LUCIANO GALIMBERTI
by Jacqueline Ceresoli

Open to the public in 2021, the new ADI Design Museum, promoted by ADI in partnership with the City of Milan, is a dynamic space of over 5,000 square metres housing the Compasso d’Oro collection, i. e. the objects that have won the prestigious award for Italian design from 1954 to the present day. Located in the former Enel area of Porta Volta in Milan, the exhibition design and layout is by Studio Migliore+Servetto Architects and Italo Lupi. The prestigious historical collection of more than two thousand items required a design and narrative approach capable of enhancing the value of a heritage that encompasses the evolution of culture, taste and technological development, in a dialogue with the contemporary world made up of exhibitions and moments of reflection on the active role of museums in relation to other national institutions and society, with the help of the web. Luciano Galimberti, president of ADI, shares his views on the subject in this interview.


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THE MEETING WITH MAURIZIO ROSSI, PRESIDENT-ELECT OF AIC
by Monica Moro

The AIC-International Colour Association was founded in 1967 in Washington DC, USA, during the 16th Session of the CIE, and is formed by the federation of 30 national colour associations, thus gathering thousands of participants worldwide, including researchers, professionals, artists and enthusiasts, on all multidisciplinary topics of colour. In this capacity, it represents the authority on all activities and disciplines dealing with such an essential and transversal subject as Colour.
LUCE asked Maurizio Rossi, the new President-Elect of AIC and former President of the Gruppo del Colore (the Italian Colour Association) from 2010 to 2018, and a longstanding AIDI member, to take stock of the activities carried out by AIC in recent years and to indicate the objectives for the next two years. He also talked about how the Colour scenario has evolved over the last few decades and, in his role as director of the two Masters in Lighting Design & Technology and Color Design & Technology at Politecnico di Milano, he explained the relationship between light and colour.


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INTERVIEWS

FAMILY KNOWLEDGE: A MEETING WITH EMILIANA MARTINELLI
by Pierluigi Masini

Emiliana Martinelli, architect and designer, chairs the company that bears her surname, created by her father Elio in 1950. In the interview, she recalls the memories or the emotions raised by creation, the passion for observing and looking at objects with a special eye, to see what is behind them and not to overlook the different points of view. She likes to draw, and so we discover that she always carries a notebook with her so that she can immediately capture what strikes her, perhaps a shadow that makes her see an object. She tells us about a lamp conceived and made during the lockdown period, while staying at home and looking at the garden, but also about her old acquaintances, “great designers and great lessons for me”, such as Mari, Castiglioni, Joe Colombo, Mendini, Sapper, Zanuso or Gae Aulenti, who came to Martinelli when she was 38 years old, and whose first piece produced in 1965, the famous Pipistrello lamp, is still in the catalogue after 57 years. And the well-deserved joy of the Compasso d’Oro award in 2011 with a project by a then-unknown young man, Brian Sironi, and his Elica lamp.


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DESIGNING LIGHT

21ST CENTURY ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN DIALOGUE WITH THE SACRED: THE CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA GORETTI IN MORMANNO
by Monica Moro

Nel cuore del Parco Nazionale del Pollino, che si estende sull’Appennino meridionale cosentino, si è In the heart of the Pollino National Park, which stretches across the southern Cosentine Apennines, the architectural project for the new Church of Santa Maria Goretti, built for the diocese of Cassano all’Jonio in the small mountain town of Mormanno, has been completed. Designed by MC A – Mario Cucinella Architects and built on the hills overlooking the Calabrian town, it was recently inaugurated after eight years of work: it is an architecture capable of speaking through a contemporary language in dialogue with the specific nature of the place. Here the two creative disciplines of Architecture and Art meet and dialogue with the echo of the ancient Baroque structure. The interior of the building is a constant source of natural light, with daylight penetrating through the roof, filtered by a series of translucent veils hanging from the ceiling, an artwork by Giuseppe Maraniello.


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DESIGNING LIGHT

MONET AND MAGIC REALISM: THE LATEST EXHIBITIONS AT PALAZZO REALE IN MILAN, AS LIT BY FRANCESCO MURANO
by Massimo Gozzi

Grazie ai suoi capolavori, Claude Monet ha influenzato il suo tempo ed è stato capace di definire il futuro

Thanks to his masterpieces, Claude Monet influenced his time and was able to define the future of art. The exhibition “Monet. Works from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris”, curated by Marianne Mathieu in collaboration with the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris and the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France, offered the public the artist’s excursus on the theme of light reflection. Still at the Palazzo Reale, “Magic Realism. An Italian Style”, curated by Gabriella Belli and Valerio Terraroli, and with the exhibition design by Mario Bellini and Raffaele Cipolletta, presented more than eighty masterpieces from this complex and fascinating artistic movement that developed between the two wars of the 20th century.
A common element, certainly unifying the two events, was the hand of Francesco Murano as lighting designer. We tried to better understand his work with him.


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DESIGNERS

FUNCTION, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL FORM. INTERVIEW WITH SARA MORONI
by Federica Capoduri

Accompagnata a discutere la tesi di Laurea in “Disegno Industriale del Prodotto” da Carlotta de Bevilacqua, Presidente di Artemide, Sara Moroni si specializza in lighting al Politecnico di Milano. Nel 2

After being guided to discuss her degree thesis in “Industrial Product Design” by Carlotta de Bevilacqua, President of Artemide, Sara Moroni specialised in lighting at the Milan Polytechnic. In 2015 she opened her own studio, devoting herself to design and art direction in the fields of product, lighting, interior, exhibit and communication design, working with companies such as Penta Light, Platek, Il Fanale, Axolight, Antonangeli by Chore, Masiero, Schneider Electric.
An all-round designer, she is both a product and a lighting designer; to begin our interview for LUCE we asked her to tell us about this multidisciplinary approach, but also about when she decided, or discovered, that design was in her destiny.


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MAGIC LANTERN

CRAFTSMEN OF LIGHT: A CONVERSATION WITH JEAN KALMAN, LIGHTING DESIGNER, AND ARNO SCHUITEMAKER, CHOREOGRAPHER
by Marcello Filibeck

L’incontro con Jean Kalman al teatro di Zaandam, località vicino ad Amsterdam, assieme al coreografo Arno Schuitemaker, amico e collega con cui condivide idee e pensieri per lo spettacolo che stanno

The meeting with Jean Kalman at the theatre in Zaandam, near Amsterdam, together with choreographer Arno Schuitemaker, a friend and colleague with whom he shares ideas and thoughts for the show they are preparing for the Holland Festival in June.
Kalman, a lighting designer for many opera and theatre productions in Europe, has worked with leading directors and was awarded the Laurence Olivier Prize for Best Lighting Design for Richard III at London’s Royal National Theatre. Netherlands-based Schuitemaker, on the other hand, deforms and alters the way we perceive time and space in his interdisciplinary productions, turning scenes into meditations on life. In 2019, the show The Way You Sound Tonight received the Dutch award for the most exciting dance production


In LUCE 339.2022 you will find many other articles, special reports, interviews, and insights. We are always on the lookout for new suggestions and ideas to understand, explain and raise awareness of the world of Italian and international lighting. Keep reading and writing to us.

ASSOCIATIONS

LIGHT THROUGH THE LENS OF THE UNION DES CRÉATEURS LUMIÈRE
by Antonio Palermo


CIE ITALY

THE OUTPUT OF SURFACE PROJECT
by Paola Iacomussi


EDUCATION

A CONVERSATION WITH JAN BIGAZZI, DIDACTIC COORDINATOR OF THE LIGHTING DESIGN COURSE AT THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF DESIGN IN FLORENCE
by Federica Capoduri


SMART LIGHTING SPECIAL REPORT

 

SMART LIGHTING IN SMART BUILDINGS. A COMPLEX SCENARIO OUTLINED BY GIAN LUIGI GERESCHI, FABIO MARCOMIN AND ALESSANDRO ZUCCHI
by Laura Bellia and Andrea Calatroni


PREMIO LUCE SPECIAL REPORT

 

PREMIO LUCE 2021. THE FIRST EDITION OF THE AIDI AWARD
by Giulia Ottavia Silla


LUCE’S NOTEBOOKS

 

LIGHT AND FURNITURE
by
Davide Turci

THE 5 SENSES IN ARCHITECTURE
by Alessandra Reggiani

THE SCENT OF LIGHT: A SENSE LONG NEGLECTED IN THE DESIGN SPHERE
by Alessandra Reggiani


ARCHITECTS

 

BARRECA + LA VARRA. THE GREAT ARCHITECTURE OF OPEN SPACES IN A MILAN THAT DOES NOT YET EXIST
by Andrea Calatroni


LIGHT ART

MARINELLA SENATORE’S DANCE OF LIGHT
by Jacqueline Ceresoli


EXHIBITION

“INFERNO” AT THE SCUDERIE DEL QUIRINALE
by Jacqueline Ceresoli


RESEARCH

LED AND PUBLIC LIGHTING: IS MORE COMFORT POSSIBLE?
by Luce Della Foglia


MAKING OF

BELL: THE OUTDOOR GETS ELEGANT
by Andrea Calatroni


INDEX

INDEX 2021