Radical Landscapes marks Mario Trimarchi’s first solo exhibition in Brussels. The Compasso d’Oro award– winning designer and architect presents a selection of his most recent work, including unique objects and drawings on paper. Trimarchi’s research unfolds across delicate, poetic landscapes captured in his drawings, and continues into the creation of unexpected and sometimes precarious objects: sophisticated assemblages of raw materials such as glass, metal mesh, stone, brass with domestic and familiar forms. These fragile yet striking constructions talk to us about the unachievable equilibrium of life, about warmth and coldness, instability and solidity, lightness and weight, transparency and opacity. In Radical Landscapes, Trimarchi invites us to explore the poetic friction between the natural and the designed — between what we know and what we are still learning to see.
Monika Unger — Exhibition concept and production