Roberto Fallani. Seduto ad arte e illuminato.

From 24 February through 23 March, in the MCI space at the Triennale di Milano, a personal showing by designer Roberto Fallani entitled “Artfully Seated and Illuminated”: a carefully-chosen selection of the furnishing and lighting elements, milestones along the artist’s creative path. Curators of the exhibition: Fortunato D’Amico and Massimo Domenicucci.

Time and its inexorable march is a theme that Fallani has amply interpreted in his works, with a focus on change and the future, while from the past he captures auras from those ancient civilizations that kindle his imagination – and reshapes them in a contemporary key.
Roberto Fallani’s creations are always coherent with his personal worldview: “For me, change in man’s ways of thinking has always been the fundamental leitmotif: to move ahead, always differently.” It is in this perspective that Fallani’s works come into being; often patented, his futuristic forms are fantastical revisitations of lines and styles that call to mind surreal ambiences. The references to the refined, portentous atmospheres of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis are potent and recurring.

In 2011, his passion for experimentation and the new technologies led Fallani to create Butler, on show at the exhibition. An example of comfort united with versatility and technology, this adjustable, poly-functional armchair, more than a meter and a half in height, is an all-enveloping structure incorporating video, PC, radio, LED lighting, a ventilation system, a pull-out refrigerator drawer, and a digital safe compartment. All the low-consumption technological features are activated via a lightweight, flexible photovoltaic panel that supplies environment-friendly energy.