Location:
Carwan Gallery, Athens

Ruins: Encoded Symbols

The exhibition “Ruins: Encoded Symbols” features a series of works by Italian designer Roberto Sironi, that re-signify architectural fragments belonging to different historical periods and which refer to the most significant archaeological sites placed in the Mediterranean basin. The project relates some constructive elements of the classical era as bases of columns, capitals, sections of amphitheatre with rudiments of the industrial era, such as the double-T beams, reticular structural elements and corrugated sheet metal, which are reshaped according to a new aesthetic perspective. The collection is conceived as a series of contemporary ruins, freely deconstructed and reconstructed, imaginary simulacra, programmed artifices where the materials and techniques of execution do not correspond to the original but rather become functional to the postarchaeological message conveyed, transmitting a feeling of “Indefinite time” that becomes hypothetical, evanescent, suspended.

The collection was conceived and designed by Roberto Sironi as a result of his design research developed as part of IN Residence Design Residency #1.

The exhibition run at Carwan gallery in Athens from 4th June to 17th July, 2021.