{"id":455293,"date":"2026-05-22T22:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/455293\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T22:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:52:28","slug":"rooms-as-worlds-mendinis-universe-comes-to-life-on-lake-maggiore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/455293\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooms as worlds: Mendini\u2019s universe comes to life on Lake Maggiore"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Villa Giulia, the exhibition curated by Loredana Parmesani retraces the career of Alessandro Mendini through radicalism, irony, and postmodernism<\/p>\n

Inside the rooms of Villa Giulia, overlooking Lake Maggiore from one of the most panoramic spots in Verbania, the exhibition Alessandro Mendini. Cose. Stanze come mondi creates an intimate and carefully orchestrated journey into the creative universe of Alessandro Mendini. Curated by Loredana Parmesani and organized by the Municipality of Verbania in collaboration with the Archivio Alessandro Mendini, through Elisa and Fulvia Mendini, the exhibition brings together 130 works among the most iconic of his production, spanning a chronological arc from the Milanese Radical Design movement of the 1970s to his postmodern reflections and collaborations with Alessi, historically connected to the Verbano Cusio Ossola area.<\/p>\n

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\nAlessandro Mendini. Cose. Stanze come mondi, Verbania, Villa Giulia, 2026<\/p>\n

The exhibition design engages directly with the historic architecture of the villa, built by Giuseppe Branca and dedicated to his wife Giulia, completed in 1884 as an extension of an earlier residence commissioned in 1848 by Bernardino Branca, inventor of Fernet. The intimate and domestic character of the interiors becomes the key to the exhibition itself: each room is conceived as an autonomous world, shaped around a single iconic object from the Mendini archive, selected together with his daughters Fulvia and Elisa.<\/p>\n

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\nAlessandro Mendini. Cose. Stanze come mondi, Verbania, Villa Giulia, 2026<\/p>\n

From this premise unfolds an emotional and design-driven narrative in which every work generates its own atmosphere. The Poltrona di Paglia (1974) opens a reflection on design as provocation and social activism, moving beyond the mere function of the useful object. The celebrated Poltrona di Proust (1978), suspended between Rococo references and Pointillism, reveals the most visionary and theatrical side of Mendini\u2019s research. The K2 sofa (2013) pays tribute to the artists and movements that nourished his imagination \u2014 from Giorgio de Chirico to Alberto Savinio, from Carlo Carr\u00e0 to Futurism and the historical avant-gardes \u2014 while the Mendinigrafo (1985) transforms his universe of signs, patterns, and decorations into a drawing instrument, encapsulating the visual language that made his work instantly recognizable.<\/p>\n

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\nAlessandro Mendini. Cose. Stanze come mondi, Verbania, Villa Giulia, 2026<\/p>\n

The exhibition continues with 100% Make Up by Alessi, a collection of one hundred porcelain vases designed by Mendini and decorated by international artists, designers, and architects, alongside Mobili per Uomo: Giacca (1997), a monumental mosaic-and-gold-leaf cabinet-sculpture that transforms a garment into domestic architecture. Each section is accompanied by drawings, paintings, photographs, writings, and objects that reveal the genesis of the works, highlighting not only the stylistic evolution of the designer but also the theoretical dimension of his practice.<\/p>\n

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\nAlessandro Mendini. Cose. Stanze come mondi, Verbania, Villa Giulia, 2026<\/p>\n

It is precisely this construction through environments that makes the exhibition particularly immersive: rather than a traditional retrospective, Alessandro Mendini. Cose. Stanze come mondi unfolds as a sequence of emotional and mental spaces, where visitors encounter the most personal side of Mendini. The intentionally restrained selection of works contributes to creating an intimate, almost domestic experience, reflecting the very idea of the room so central to the designer\u2019s thinking: a place of stillness and reflection, but also of restlessness and imagination.<\/p>\n

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\nAlessandro Mendini. Cose. Stanze come mondi, Verbania, Villa Giulia, 2026<\/p>\n

Within this constant interplay between irony, decoration, memory, and experimentation emerges the most playful dimension of Mendini\u2019s poetics. Colors, forms, artistic references, and contaminations transform objects into narrative presences, suspended between art and design, function and fantasy. It is an approach that made Mendini\u2019s work unique on the international stage, and that the exhibition conveys through a journey of details, visions, and unexpected creative short circuits.<\/p>\n

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