The exhibition ” A Castiglioni” examines Castiglioni’s work in a transversal manner, ranging from design to architecture through to exhibition displays. The curation and installation is entrusted to Patricia Urquiola in collaboration with Federica Sala. Castiglioni’s approach is simple and direct but with a wealth of inquisitiveness and irony, and it became the method he used to train later generations of designers. The items he designed – most of which are still in production today, and among their manufacturers’ bestselling products – take inspiration from the everyday world and transform it into something new, adopting a wry approach to the relationship between form and function. Until 1968, he designed his items in collaboration with his brothers Livio and, especially, Pier Giacomo. Most of them are still in production today and are among their manufacturers’ bestselling products. They take inspiration from the everyday world and transform it into something new, adopting a wry approach to the relationship between form and function To give a clear picture of this highly active and, in a sense, timeless figure, it has been decided not to adopt a chronological or schematic approach but to show his work by means of a series of often overlapping and intersecting aggregates of content. The idea is thus to create a map of recurrent macro and micro concepts in his designs, in a non-hierarchic, non-linear, ramified manner. The designs are thus grouped in twenty clusters and placed in relation to each other, in order to illustrate Castiglioni’s approach to design and the method he adopted in his work: from product design through to large-scale architecture, by way of the many display designs that were emblematic of his professional career.
“Castiglioni”展览以横向的方式审视了Castiglioni的作品，从设计到建筑，再到展览展示。管理和安装工作由Patricia Urquiola与Federica Sala合作进行。卡斯蒂廖尼的方法简单而直接，但带有丰富的好奇心和讽刺意味，这成为他用来培养后世设计师的方法。他设计的产品-其中大部分至今仍在生产中，以及其制造商最畅销的产品-从日常生活中汲取灵感，并将其转化为新事物，对形式和功能之间的关系采取了一种扭曲的方式。直到1968年，他与他的兄弟利维奥，特别是皮尔·贾科莫合作设计了他的物品。其中大部分至今仍在生产中，属于制造商最畅销的产品之一。他们从日常生活中汲取灵感，将其转化为新事物，对形式与功能之间的关系采取扭曲的方法，以清晰地描绘这一高度活跃的、在某种意义上是永恒的人物，决定不采用按时间顺序或图式的方法，而是通过一系列经常重叠和相交的内容集合来展示他的作品。因此，他的想法是在他的设计中，以一种非等级、非线性、零散的方式，创造一张反复出现的宏观和微观概念的地图。因此，这些设计被分成二十组，并相互关联，以说明卡斯蒂廖尼的设计方法和他在工作中采用的方法：从产品设计到大规模建筑，通过许多展示设计，这些都是他职业生涯的象征。