Jasmine Pignatelli: one of our designers at the Salone del Mobile in Milan

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The Salone del Mobile in Milan is approaching and we at Trackdesign are proud to be able to present all the designers who have contributed to the creation of the products that we will present within our stand. Today we present Jasmine Pignatelli, born in Canada, lives and works between Bari and Rome.

She is engaged in a personal artistic career in sculpture. After the artistic high school and the degree in Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic, he approaches contemporary art with a historical-critical approach, collaborating with galleries and magazines in the sector.

Jasmine wanted to tell us about her relationship with art, and in particular her relationship with the Corten steel with which she gave birth to some of her projects that we will proudly exhibit at the Milan Furniture Fair.

THINK IN CORTEN. From art to architecture to design.

I was a guest in the Trackdesign workshops to create large-scale steel sculptures destined to become the floor of the ancient Masseria Calderisi in Savelletri. This is how I entered the world of corten steel, as an artist and as an architect.

As an artist, the comparison with these materials, including technological ones, represented a great achievement that refers to historical masters: I am thinking of the Apulian Nicola Carrino, Mauro Staccioli, Chillida, Oteiza or Richard Serra among many others. All masters who nurture my artistic education and who have found an absolute expressive code in corten.

As an architect, I found in the collaboration with TrackDesign technicians, engineers and creatives the skills to reconcile art, craft, industry and design: almost impossible not to refer to the twentieth-century debate on the relationship between technology and culture developed by the Bauhaus school and which represents for every artist / architect a great cultural and productive ambition.

"THINKING IN CORTEN" in such an advanced and technologically advanced laboratory means exploiting its full potential and pushing into new aesthetic, linguistic and structural fields. "THINKING IN CORTEN" means supporting and developing the sense of geometry, working on the measure, means moving into a field full of pitfalls such as size. But it also means entering the skin of the material and its vital part, it means entering the surface and, from the inside, interpreting and then bending the space.

"THINKING IN CORTEN" led me to respond to the invitation of TrackDesign to design a furnishing object that had also artistic variations. From this invitation the LACAN mirrors were born that refer to my latest artistic works and to the language I developed on the concepts of form, space, direction, relationship, identity. All this has generated a relationship, a partnership with the company and the promise of new future work to be thought of together, such as the imminent construction of a large public steel sculpture for the Bari waterfront and all its citizens.

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