RESIDENCIES
RESIDENCY #1
ENCODED SYMBOLS
Designers:
MARCIN RUSAK
ROBERTO SIRONI
A year-long residency.
Started in Turin, Italy, in February 2019
MARCIN RUSAK
Marcin Rusak was born in 1987 Warsaw, Poland. He now lives and works in London. Marcin situates his work at the intersection of value, ephemerality and aesthetics. Marcin has a background in both humanities (BA from European Studies from University of Warsaw) and art programmes such as Man and Living at the conceptual Eindhoven Design Academy, Netherlands as well as receiving an MA in Design Products from London’s Royal College of Arts.
marcinrusak.com
ROBERTO SIRONI
Roberto Sironi (1983) is an Italian designer based in Milan. His design practice combines art, craftsmanship and new technologies and his works have been presented and published internationally. Sironi collaborates with important art and design galleries and institutions such as Carwan Gallery, Gallery S.Bensimon, Bazar Noir Berlin, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia and Triennale Design Museum and he is also a Professor and Research Fellow at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano.
robertosironi.it
THE THEME:
“ENCODED SYMBOLS”
“First, to feel the symbols, to feel that the symbols have life and soul – that the symbols are like us.”
Fernando Pessoa