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Milan Picaresque on showcase at Triennale Design Museum in Milan

Published: 11-Feb-2013

Milan Picaresque, the new project designed by Nigel Coates for the exhibition Kama. Sex and Design, has been on showcase at Triennale Design Museum in Milan from 5 December 2012 till 10 March 2013.

Nigel Coates’ Picaresque will explore the secret life of objects and furniture through an original interactive installation. The exhibit has been realised as a freestanding triptych that cuts diagonally across the gallery space. Giant frames locate three tableaux in which objects advance into a visual field that reach towards the viewer.

On one hand the installation contains nothing more than ordinary tables and chairs; on the other it constitutes a composition that sets up many axes of erotic charge as if in a multiple magnetic field. Taken a step further, visitors can use digital tablets to view a series of films by John Maybury, glimpse and alternate reality and see naked figures in each frame of the triptych.

Milan Picaresque has been curated by Silvana Annicchiarico.

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