Space for Reflection

An obituary for designer, artist, and creator of 'allegorical' exhibitions Enzo Mari, who died at 88-years-old, is presented. Mari was a notoriously difficult man. Notoriously sharp, too: like the sickles he loved to collect and exhibit as the epitome of functional design, superlative craf...

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Published in:Frieze : contemporary art and culture 2021-01 (216), p.33
Main Author: Casavecchia, Barbara
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Deaths
Designers
Mari, Enzo
Personal profiles
Visual artists
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Summary:An obituary for designer, artist, and creator of 'allegorical' exhibitions Enzo Mari, who died at 88-years-old, is presented. Mari was a notoriously difficult man. Notoriously sharp, too: like the sickles he loved to collect and exhibit as the epitome of functional design, superlative craftsmanship and working-class pride. Artist, designer, architect, theorist, teacher, curator, public intellectual and self-confessed Utopian, Mari was labeled 'the critical conscience of design' by fellow designer Alessandro Mendini. If the main activity of a conscience is moral reflection, then the title was well earned.
ISSN:0962-0672