Organized by IEG-Italian Exhibition Group, Superfaces is the B2B marketplace dedicated to innovative materials for interiors, design and architecture. Tradition and innovation are creatively interpreted, with cutting-edge materials and solutions for cladding, panelling and flooring. iSUPERMATERIALI, the exhibition conceived and curated by Armando Bruno, Studio Marco Piva’s CEO-in D5 hall of Rimini’s fair, tells the story of a triple encounter between nature, man and material: a connection marked by mathematics and beauty.
What guided Studio Marco Piva in the conception of the project were the perspective moments of the past ranging from Architecture to Art: Borromini’s fake perspective at Galleria Spada; the visionary Danteum never built; Michael Heizer’s site specific installations; Le Corbusier’s Modulor. The concept behind iSUPERMATERIALI is to rationalize a space-between mathematics, architecture and beauty, to tell the story of the first processing of the material: the goal was to create a sustainable exhibition through essential elements with strong symbolic power.
Super materials are the essential ingredients for the recipe for a future and sustainable architecture: new materials and surfaces with evolved shapes and extraordinary properties, which conquer design with their imperfections. The concept itself of new materials and super materials is inextricably linked to that of modernity. In the history of architecture, the introduction of innovative materials and techniques has for centuries followed the logic of gradual changes, responding to new functional, performative, aesthetic and stylistic needs. Each material is a product, a natural and at the same time artificial artifact, marked by the intervention of man to respond to new functional, performative, aesthetic and stylistic needs.The task of the human being, whose hand is always looking for new possibilities and new design inspirations to transform the world, is to emphasize the nature’s gifts, its own materials. In a dynamic and never steady reality, natural and artificial resources are the great opportunities available to architecture and shown in iSUPERMATERIALI.
