Roberto Sironi | Aphanès

羅伯特·西羅尼 | Aphanès

皮拉埃斯 Polidefkous 39 號,雅典 Carwan 畫廊 | 2023年5月5日 – 6月18日

Carwan Gallery 很高興呈獻與義大利設計師 Roberto Sironi 的全新合作項目,該系列雕塑感大理石家具是與義大利大理石供應商 Palmalisa Zantedeschi 對話交流下的結晶。此系列名為「Aphanès」,標誌著 Sironi 形式語言的新方向,同時延續了他過往作品中一貫的議題,如建築史、研究導向的方法論,以及對古文明與史前物質文化的迷戀。

「Aphanès」系列靈感源自石器時代的巨石建築,透過結構原型的簡約感,展現材質的豐富性——即極為稀有、擁有精緻紋理與色彩的大理石。這是一系列延續設計師研究導向方法的創新作品,這一特點在「RUINS」(該設計師為 Carwan 創作的首個委託項目,開發於 2018-2021 年間)中已顯露無遺;在該項目中,他研究了地中海地區的工業與古典建築遺跡,並將其碎片重組成裝置藝術。而在「Aphanès」中,他將時光回溯得更久遠,直探人類志向型建築文化的起源。構成「Aphanès」系列的設計物件讓人聯想到支石墓(史前石桌結構),營造出儀式感與神秘氛圍,並透過其極簡外型與大理石鮮活表面之間的對比,引發一場視覺上的衝擊。

At the heart of the project lies a reverence for the material itself: the two selected stones were extracted decades ago from quarries that are no longer active, without any certain information about their geographical origin. The material’s most prominent feature is of course its extraordinary internal structure that, with the appropriate cutting and finishing, reveals exquisite patterns and shapes in an arresting kaleidoscope of yellows, greens, and purples. All objects part of the Aphanès collection are handmade near Verona, in Italy’s leading marble region, using custom finishing by hand for each object, in order to highlight the details of the material itself and to expose the beauty that is hidden inside the stone.

This process of revealing what is hidden within the stone lends the project its title, with aphanès being an Ancient Greek word meaning that which does not appear, something hidden. In that sense, the design process becomes one of exposing the ‘nude nature’ of the stone, with an emphasis on allowing what nature has formed over millions of years, to show. The result of more than two years of research and careful work with the available material, Aphanès respects the original formation process of these stones, with the understanding that their intricate patterns are a visual documentation of the history of the earth itself. Through these micro-megalithic meditations, Roberto Sironi expands his years-long interest in matter-research and its archeological approach into a new visual and formal language.

The collection Aphanès comprises a bench, side tables, coffee tables and low tables, a console and a desk — all cut from blocks of rare marble in super-limited editions.