Nilufar Gallery || It's All About Colour by Studio Nucleo - Bethan Laura Wood, Martino Gamper and Massimiliano Locatelli: new contemporary conversations - special project by Federica Perazzoli

ground floor and via Senato space
IT’S ALL ABOUT COLOUR
Studio Nucleo

Studio Nucleo, a Turin-based collective of designers and artists led by Piergiorgio Robino, presents IT'S ALL ABOUT COLOUR an exhibition dedicated to the studio's collections and new productions, celebrating their tenth year of collaboration with the gallery.
"Life, death, power, love, passion, racing, religions, union, dangers, etc."
Humans Life it's all about colors.
Starting from color correlations, Nucleo exhibits six projects selected by Nina Yashar.
The exhibition will be an "IN FIERI" (Latin expression for in progress). The pieces will arrive monthly scheduled from July to November.

Primitive, initially presented at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, was Nilufar's first project for the Salone del Mobile in 2010 would open the sequence again. Exhibited in many museums and galleries around the world, Primitive became the cornerstone of Nucleo's design collections. Realized for ten years in the signature shade of white, it appears this year for the first time in a full-color edition, enriched with a new chromatic range.
Color Lenses is the latest Nucleo project, would be the last. An entire collection designed exclusively for Nilufar, including a bench, stools, floor lamps, and wall lighting, plays with transparency and multiplication of colors. Like lenses, focusing and refracting light through optical devices, the objects in this collection enchant with their changing reflections. The new series consists of several transparent volumes of polished resin. Each parallelepiped is colored using a new innovative technique that creates a polychromatic visual experience.
New shades also reimagine Presenze, the second collection presented by Nilufar. One vase from 2014 is recolored with an innovative "technique" that gives it new life; another piece, an unpublished console is made with resin cubes recycled from past editions and recolored with a new dark light.
The Cages bookcase, a unique 2014 piece made with an iron structure and framed in polished, patinated bronze, is in dialogue with the evolving project Left Over. These table sculptures, where the wooden tabletops become pictorial surfaces, were made in collaboration with the contemporary artist Hilario Isola in 2018 for the exhibition Innesti. Hilario Isola's work focuses on the pictorial and chromatic potential of organic material, such as fruit. Beginning with Cages, the artist leaves leftover fruits and vegetables on the wooden surfaces to stain them with the expelled juices. Originally a metal structure allowing light to filter through, Cages evokes a simple spatial representation, almost immutable. While being permeated by light, the geometric module is involved in a life-cycle of organic decay that fills it with color.
In the direction of the first Left Over the piece, Nucleo designs an entirely new Left Over collection, continuing the studio's artistic collaboration with Hilario Isola. Elegant geometric brass structures host carved alabaster stones, which provide a canvas for Isola's organic color paintings.
In 2015 Nucleo presented Relief at Nilufar Depot: the sum of an artifact with its display. Since the display is visible as the artifact, it acquires the same value of the work that it exposes. The display becomes an installation, and joins the artifact, merging into a single work. The modular structures presented in the exhibition reveal themselves in bright colours. Nucleo presents a bench, a shelf, and one console: no more a simple display but an installation, that explains the artifact and enhances it.

via Senato space
special project by Federica Perazzoli

Nina Yashar has entrusted the development of this space to artist Federica Perazzoli, who presents Each time you fall in love, a new work inspired by the visual and aesthetic language of the East. The artist’s creation of a painting, 200x600cm, made exclusively for Nilufar Gallery, is the starting point for further departures. The work, printed on fabric and wallpaper, covers the new contemporary pieces of Studio Nucleo, in a dreamlike and hyper-decorative atmosphere.

first floor
Bethan Laura Wood, Martino Gamper and Massimiliano Locatelli: new contemporary conversations

Plays of light and multicolored reflections, precious marbles and hand-blown glass define the contours of a large private lounge, where the new pieces of these contemporary designers are set in conversation with iconic furnishings by Gio Ponti, Augusto Bozzi, Carlo Pagani and Joaquim Tenreiro, in an eclectic and elegant atmosphere.

ground floor – Nilufar25
HERITAGE’ selection

A reference to the Nilufar Depot exhibition, which represents a journey through the gallery's historical archive, to discover hidden treasures.