#marras

Carlo Mollino arabeschi

a cura di Fulvio e Napoleone Ferrari

Electa Mondadori, Milano 2006, 288 pagine, 24,3x28cm, ISBN 97 888 3704 9362

euro 130,00

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Mostra Galleria Arte Moderna, Castello di Rivoli 20 settembre 2006 - 7 gennaio 2007

Un'ampia visione della ricca esperienza molliniana che chiarisce lo spirito, le tematiche e le qualità del lavoro dell'architetto, attraverso l'esposizione dei rari mobili autentici e di opere provenienti da collezioni private americane ed europee, tra cui la più completa esistente, quella del gallerista svizzero Bruno Bischofberger.

Simpatico e altero, concentrato e distratto, ogni antitesi è lecita per raccontare la personalità dell’eccezionale architetto-ingegnere, lucido sognatore sufficiente a se stesso che mai acconsentì alle “banalità” di una spiegazione della propria espressione. Raffinato outsider del mondo del progetto Mollino accoglie stimoli del Secondo Futurismo e delle avanguardie surrealiste, miscelandole in modo magico alla professione di architetto. I suoi mobili, quasi tutti commissionati e creati come pezzi unici e per luoghi specifici di cui erano parte integrante, sintetizzano tensioni creative spinte verso l’assunzione delle forme organiche come riferimento e delle curve femminili come modello. Una grande mostra, raccolta in un importante volume con interventi critici di Portoghesi, Lisa Ponti, Roggero e Marras, dedica spazio ai progetti sui mobili, agli interni e alle famose auto ma anche alla sua incredibile passione per la fotografia, dove oltre duecento esemplari, unitamente a pezzi emblematici, permetteranno di riunire i vari momenti di quella che fu sempre una componente intima nel rapporto tra Mollino e la propria creatività.

2. Do you have a personal favourite among your OCs?

sigh... it seems like these two are answer to every second question but... Paju (Willow) and Rhiam....... I just love them so much. They are very personal to me and I feel like there is most "me" poured into them.

4. A character you rarely talk about?

Idk if I talk a lot about any of my characters besides I guess Rhiam lately? But here's a character I've drawn and thought a lot but shared almost none as she is a character to a graphic novel me, @artist-rat & @iijadraws were working on (still on indefinite pause & not posted anywhere). We all designed one protagonist for the story and my contribution is Kasimira or Kaipo for short. She is a princess to an empire who ends up far away from home during a traditional competition between emperors/empress' children to determine the next heir to the throne. She'd rather stay home and continue her relatively comortable life, but she doesn't trust that her power hungry older stepbrother would let her keep that if she lost.

7. Are your OCs part of any story or stories?

I think... all of them have some kind of story? For most of them I have some sort of book or comic projects planned (whether I actually make those isn't that important but I like to dream ✨). Some are "just" game charactes I've created but even then they do have a story. And I might have plans to snatch them for other projects as well.

37. Introduce an OC who is not quite human

Marras is a god of shipwrecks and keeper of sunken treasures and souls lost at sea in my and Rat's anotherrr comic draft world. They (he?) are a minor and not-really-worshipped deity, he (they?) works under a more prominent sea god Salvia. He has many forms including a gigantic deep sea beast, shoal of fish, a cat with too many legs and his version of a human. Though his idea of how humans look is based on corpses rotting in water and sunken ship's figureheads so it is a bit... off. And why a cat amongst other things? Well in his past life he was indeed a ship's cat. The vessel he was on sunk and the crew left the poor cat behind and Salvia took pity in it and made it a god. As you do.

He could have a more morbid look on life, but he's in fact quite cheerful. You might be even able to struck a deal with him if you are lucky enough, but I wouldn't get my hopes up. For he usually only shows up to sink your ship if you have stolen something from him.