Edoardo Piermattei

Works

On site

Trapasso Tropicale

Trapasso Tropicale is a site specific and permanent installation for a cellar in the heart of the Irpinia region, close to Naples but far from the richness palaces of the king Borboni.

Roccabascerana (AV), Italy

On site

Talamo

Talamo is a modular installation, a wooden structure measuring approximately 118 x 49 inches, coated with pigmented concrete.

Pietrasanta, (LU) Italy

On site

Cremisaria

As it probably happened to some of the first and most distracted Venetian merchants, one might think of red berries. It is cochineals instead. Precious insects, arranged in clusters, from which the red crimson, namely the colour of the Venetian banner, is extracted.

Palazzo Querini, Venice, Italy

On site

Fendi

For nine months, I worked on a site-specific project for the Fendi store on Via Montenapoleone in Milan, inside the building designed by Emilio Lancia, for which I designed the four foyer ceilings.

Milan, Italy

On site

Festone

In Offagna, where I was born, I transformed a stairwell into the theatre of a botanical infestation.

Offagna, Italy

Collaboration

Fendi bags

When Fendi asked me to think about an edition of the Artists Peekaboo, their iconic bag, I couldn’t stop thinking about the childhood game of hiding behind your own hands and then reappearing, about making yourself a hiding place, seeking protection in the dark and withdrawing into invisibility.

On site

Fabriano

Returning to the Marche, where I was born, with an invitation to work inside Bar Luce and at the reception of Residenza La Ceramica in Fabriano felt like coming home for Christmas Eve dinner.

Fabriano, Italy

Portable

Delizia

The invention of gelato has been attributed to Bernardo Buontalenti, a Florentine architect, stage designer and, apparently, sorbet maker.

Palazzo Corsini Barberini, Florence, Italy

Portable

moduli

Moduli (“Modules”), like Patroni, emerged from a precise necessity: to make painting an enveloping experience and always site-specific.

Portable

Patroni

“Patrono” derives from pater: in ancient Rome, it referred to an authoritative and protective figure − a legislator, an advocate.

On site

italiano in algeri

There is something subversive in the way Giacomo Serpotta elevates a humble material such as stucco (plaster, lime, and marble dust) to the level of the Baroque’s formal aspirations in his Palermo Oratories.

Studio work

Portable

Pale

On site

ecce grotta!

I have always thought that, even if the divine has no image, it may still have a place: a space capable of giving it a material presence.

Ronchi san bernardo (TO), Italy

Portable

Asa Nisi Masa

Asa Nisi Masa is a series of sculptures conceived to inhabit spaces and wear architecture.

Quartz studio, Italy

Collaboration

dagallà X cc-tapis

In Sicilian, “dagala” refers to islands of vegetation spared by lava flows, scattered across the volcanic landscape of Mount Etna.

Portable

Fuga da Giverny

Many of my works begin with a series of “What ifs?” What if Napoleon had returned from the Italian campaign by bicycle?

Portable

Sorimasa

Sorimasa is a baldachin: an octagonal structure that combines the transience of a field tent with the softness of a Baroque baldachin.

Triennale Milano Pittura Italiana oggi, Italy

Portable

Supir

On site

Cake

With the cakes, my interest in the relationship between pastry-making and power takes on a performative dimension.

On site

Qubbah

Qubbah is a site-specific project designed for the space of Masseria Cultura, in the Valle d’Itria.

Masseria Cultura, Noci (BA), Italy

On site

Italian Villages project

There is nearly nothing nearby Sambuca di Sicilia. Located 89 km from Agrigento and 78 km south from Palermo, it barely counts 6000 people. It is considered one of the most beautiful small villages of Italy and now there is a reason more to go there.

Palazzo Panitteri, Sambuca di Sicilia (AG) Italy

On site

Porziuncola

Though appreciating the habit of domesticating art to the point of being able to bear it in our hands before hanging it on our homes, the true nature of art invades and pervades the walls, from the ceiling to the floor.

Spazio Buonasera, Turin, Italy