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ALDO MOZZINI, a professor at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst of Zürich
(*1956, Locarno), has started many years ago a work that could be qualified
as deconstruction of the industrial design, as it was developed during the
twentieth century. The International Style had affirmed the interdependence
between the form and the function of an object, whatever it may be, starting
from a trivial three-leg stool till the architecture of a complex building,
in insisting on what the function could in an ideal way define the form. But
what happens when the formal aspect and the efficiency of an object are
driven to their limits. Which are the indispensable elements, so much
functional as aesthetic, which permit to recognize an object as it is?
Through the reconstruction of buildings, pieces of furniture and objects
with waste material, Aldo Mozzini asks in precise way these questions. His
craftmade and informal approach not only condemn implicitly a design tied up
with the profit, but is as well a true ontological research on the objects
of ordinary use.