The "Massi Erratici” project reconfigures the museum's access spaces through modular surfaces and volumes conceived as independent fragments, which can be moved and combined in ever new arrangements, introducing an element of play and accommodating multiple museum initiatives.
“We imagined a collection to organise a series of museum-related activities: from bookshop spaces, vernissages and open-air exhibitions, from editorial meetings of the museum's magazine to the display of works from the museum's collection.”
Designers Alessandra Covini and Giovanni Bellotti
Volare, col. 19 smeraldo
Solid modules are accompanied by light curtains, in an interplay of alternating weights and tactility. In the design the fabric creates new configurations, light separations or scenographies.
“These ‘Erratic Boulders’ are framed by semi-transparent emerald curtains, Dedar's Volare fabric, defining an entrance apse, backdrops for works of art, and opening onto a bookcase, displaying different books each time. The room contours are redefined by textile surfaces and curtains become the backdrop for artificial stones. According to the theories of Gottfried Semper and Adolf Loos, textiles and carpets are the first form of architecture, whose decorations were then engraved and coloured into durable materials such as stone.”
Studio Ossidiana
Massi Erratici, 2024
GAMeC, Bergamo, 2024
Courtesy GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo
Ph. Riccardo De Vecchi