To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Brandina, the Italian brand of handbags and accessories crafted from beach lounger and deck-chair canvas, its founder and designer Marco Morosini shows his artworks during Art Basel Miami, this year for the first time ever. SPACEBY3, a 1920’s complex of warehouses converted into blank-canvas events venue at 2105 North Miami Avenue in Wynwood Art District, hosts Morosini’s exhibition “The Art of Selling a Bag”.
The exhibition intends to explore the relationship between Design, Art and Business experimenting a new dimension of color, created to give the audience an experience that should be emotionally positive for the eye and regenerative for the soul. Art should be released from the box of Finance that blocked it, it should come back to us.
We have to learn how to dream being conscious of dreaming, hoping that the world could be saved by the beauty of creativity and not by power. The user will be challenged to distinguish the artistic from the commercial, the multiple from the unique, the fantastic from the usual.
With its over 30,000 square feet area, SPACEBY3 will be the first of three stop-overs of the project that’s characterized by a unique and original installation composed by curved neon works, photographic prints, fabrics and paintings, these last created with the original “Stripe Machine”, designed by the same artist.
Next Spring will be the turn of Milan, inside an ex industrial area close to the Navigli and, in May, the exhibition will go to Venice during the 56th Art Biannual Exhibition.
Marco Morosini is pushed by a strong will of exploring the themes of color that went along with his personal and professional growth. He’s a free thinker, constantly engaged in splitting himself between being a graphic designer, an entrepreneur and an artist. His inspiration comes from the great Caravaggio, Kandinsky, Mondrian with their “pixelization” and decomposition in stripes, the basis of his works.
A 60-minute documentary and a 160 page photographic book are part of the project. In the documentary there are exclusive interviews done by Marco Morosini to art critics, collectors, museum directors: Andrea Ugolini (collector), Oliviero Toscani (photographer), Renzo di Renzo (former Art Director of “Fondazione Claudio Buziol”), Antonio Ghini (Director of both Ferrari Museums in Modena and Maranello), Alessandro Dal Lago (sociologist), Enzo Gannaviello (art dealer), Achille Bonito Oliva (art critic), Davide Serra (financial expert, founder of the “Algebris” fund), Vittorio Sgarbi (art critic).
Welcome to the New World, welcome to “The Art of Selling a Bag” dimension. www.marcomorosini.com/art