BB5000 at Horizont / Budapest

BB5000 / Campari
Curated by Domenico de Chirico

June 20 – 12 September, 2018

Horizont Gallery
Zichy Jenő u. 32
H-1066 Budapest

Photo credit: Dávid Biró
Images courtesy of Horizont Gallery and
the artists
Horizont
Gallery is pleased to announce BB5000: “Campari”, the first solo
exhibition with the gallery by the Italian artist group, curated by
Domenico de Chirico. 
« Futurists had a clear and sharp
understanding that our age, the big industrial age, the age of the working metropolis,
this intense and tumultuous life had to have brand new forms of art,
philosophy, values, language.
 » (Antonio Gramsci, Marinetti
revolutionary? (1921), in The Italian futurism, cure of I. Gherarducci, Editori 
Riuniti, Roma, 1975)



Peninsular vacation and cosmopolitan noise, on the edge between architecture
and design, delicate synthesis between remains from the past and
contemporary wishes. The show “Campari” reshapes, drawing on Italian
design history of the 1900s from a bird’s eye view, the visual dream of those
years, through reconfiguring of representative and recognisable
archetypes, the perfect balance between function and innovation. From the
start, Italian design had a different genesis than any other in design history,
as it is very close to theories and ideas developed in the beginning of
the 1900s, which indeed influenced its growth. The birth of a conscience
of design in Italy contributed decisively to the so-called “second
Futurism”, an artistic and cultural movement in which Giacomo Balla,
Fortunato Depero and Enrico Pranpolini, among others, began to design
exhibition spaces, furniture, objects for the house, clothes, books and
posters, in order to “reconstruct the universe by rejoicing it”,
as it was stated in the Futurist Reconstruction Manifesto of 1915 (edited by
Balla and Depero): abstract, dynamic, transparent, colourful, bright,
autonomous, transformable, dramatic, volatile, odorous, noisy, bursting.



Starting from this ferment, a few years later, we
witness the blossoming of twentieth century design, ranging from the
rigour of Italian architect Aldo Rossi to the versatility of Gio Ponti, and
then through the various creations of the intellectuals such as Ettore
Sottsass, Alessandro Mendini and Achille Castiglioni. The legacy of these
creators are all still sources of inspiration.

The thinning and the exacerbation of the idea of remembering such a high
quality aesthetic tradition conveys a cyclical removal and recovery,
which, in the case of “Campari”, becomes a reminder and escape, a
closeness and abandonment in the exposure of vitreous shapes that suggest
a passage, a non-present presence in the balance between the temporary
fulfilment and the legacy of a “movement” – constantly attentive to
the concept of form, to use of colour and to the characteristics of
functionality and craftsmanship. They are therefore the shadows of those
movementist architectures that the exposed sculptures want to evoke in the
form of expanded shapes, emerging from an empty space, in which the music of so
much fervour resounds incessantly. 
The
environment is radically transformed while the idea of totality influences the
aspects of everyday life, existence and human perception.



BB5000 is a young Italian artist
group founded in 2015, living and working in Milan. Internationally
renowned, it consists of: Giada Carnevale, Arcangelo Costanzo, Francesco
Saverio Costanzo, Filippo De Marchi, and Giovanni Riggio.