Collaborations
Fantini Mosaici's expertise in craftsmanship seamlessly merges the worlds of design, art, and architecture, fostering creativity and inspiring these communities to explore ancient techniques from fresh perspectives.
A TALE OF BEAUTY, DÉCOR, MATERIALS AND SURFACES
Fantini Mosaici in collaboration with Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan.
April 2023
A research competition on the expressive forms of mosaic art.
“decor should be observed. that is, that the movements announce the motions of the soul” – Leonardo da Vinci.
For the first time in its 120-year history, Fantini Mosaici has promoted a creative competition – “A tale of beauty, decor, materials and surfaces. A contest investigation on the expressive forms of mosaic art” – aimed at university students.
Curated by Massimo Bruto Randone, the contest has been conceived with and is presented by Fantini Mosaici in collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, regarded as one of the most prestigious in the world and attended by over four thousand students of all nationalities.
In December 2022, students enrolled at Accademia were invited to participate in the contest. Young talents were invited to interpret the representative potential of mosaic art through the utmost authorship of their own poetic and figurative language. They were asked to create a visual work, designed to be reproduced in glass and stone mosaic, and to explore and enhance the narrative, expressive and decorative potential of high-end Italian craftsmanship using speciality hand-cut mosaic.
Downtown Design 2023
‘CARVED IN THE NOW’
Entrance hall designed by AB+ AC Architects
The hall incorporates a unique integrated multi-sensorial walk-through art installation – ‘Carved in the Now’ – that showcases the beauty of mosaic in a new light.
The symmetrical configuration of the tranquil entrance features white walls clad in diamond-shaped, sound-absorbing foam panels, contrasting with orange polycarbonate panels and an elegant nude-tinted felt carpet. This first space will ushers visitors to the octagonal shaped pavilion that houses the magical ‘Carved in the Now’ design experience made by hand by Fantini Mosaici’s master mosaicists.
Downtown Design 2023
'DESERT VISIONS', Mosaic Collection
Milan Design Week 2023
'BACK TO THE FUTURE' in collaboration with AB+AC Architects. Artistic Director Giuseppe Bavuso.
During the 14th edition of Brera Design Week, Fantini Mosaici - invited Lisbon-based studio AB+AC Architects to design a temporary art installation where the firm will soon open its first showroom in Milan, at Foro Bonaparte 68. Back to the Future - the title of the installation – was a hypnotic visual and tactile experience that showed how even the most ancient of techniques can be brought into the future. Timeless and limitless, Fantini Mosaici took craftsmanship to the next level.
Foro Bonaparte 68
Milan Design Week 2023
‘ESTETICHE SOMMERSE - UNVEILING HIDDEN BEAUTY’ by Cara Davide, curated by Park Associati
Curious and intrigued by innovative materials, techniques and processes, the couple salvaged modern electro-trash and asked Fantini Mosaici to create a ground-breaking terrazzo floor. The high-tech terrazzo floor is the main protagonist of this exhibition, which was curated by leading architectural firm Park Associati.
Milan Design Week 2022
Graphic Doodle Collection by JUSTIN TEODORO
Fantini Mosaici invited Justin Teodoro to design a series of artworks that would be transformed into mosaics. Teodoro responded with a vibrant collection of wall art. The #GraphicDoodle collection is a manifestation of his fluid, colourful and organic drawing style that lends itself to being translated into grandly bold, often playful and always intricately detailed mosaic masterpieces.
"When any creative collaboration happens between something more contemporary and something more traditional, the opportunities can be endless. These collaborations can only help fuel and push a new creative spirit and energy forward," Teodoro.
Fantini Mosaici and the Brera Academy of Arts
Launching this September is the creation of an artistic mosaic laboratory within the Academy Art Programs.
Venice Biennale 2019
SCHWARZHEIDE, Luc Tuymans, art collaboration
Contemporary Belgian painter Luc Tuymans – best known for searing figurative paintings, often using a palette of greys, blacks and sepia tones – was the artist behind Schwarzheide. Fantini Mosaici recreated this 1986 oil-on-canvas piece in a site-specific marble mosaic that required 200,000 hand-cut tiles and covered the entire atrium floor of the 18th-century Palazzo Grassi in Venice. This significant collaboration was the centrepiece of Tuymans’ major retrospective La Pelle exhibition, concurrent with the 2019 Venice Biennale. Tuymans’ masterpiece was also the focal point of the Fantini Mosaici exhibition during Milan Design Week 2019.
Venetian Terrazzo Flooring, designed by Bobo Piccoli
Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan
Designed by leading Italian artist and industrial designer Augusto 'Bobo' Piccoli (1927-1981), the magnificent floors of the historic Palazzo delle Stelline – the first of many collaborations between Piccoli and the Fantini family – are as relevant to art and architecture today as they were when first installed in the ‘70s. In 2015, Fantini Mosaici undertook a significant renovation of the Palazzo delle Stelline floors, generating renewed interest in the work and vision of Piccoli.
