CARTABURRO. Anna Franceschini – Carlo Mollino

A gaze, seduction, erotic undertones, the object as fetish: The Italian artist and researcher Anna Franceschini explores the imagery of designer and architect Carlo Mollino. This book by Anna Franceschini stems from her research on a gaze. She delved into an architecture of allusive meanings that make up the imagery of Carlo Mollino (1905-1973), one of the prominent designers in post-World War II Italy. Mollino was an architect, photographer, engineer, alpine skiing theorist and pilot. His aesthetics emphasizes a seductive ambiguity of the body - architectural or human - and a fetishism of the object. Franceschini looks for parallels with her practice: the connections between object and subject, the observed and observer, the staging of bodies and objects and their performativity. Her research led the artist to create works showcased in Turin and London between 2018 and 2019. Ed. : Filippo Berta. Text: Michele D’Aurizio, Vincenzo Di Rosa, Eva Fabbris, Milovan Farronato, João Mourão and Luís Silva, Guido Santandrea.