Antiposata

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ANTIPOSATA / Mantua, Italy

"Antiposata is the most useless object, dangerous and beautiful in its essence, ever made!"

To celebrate the centenary of the birth of the Futurist Manifesto, proclaimed in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the most appropriate way to recognise that generation of innovators as the birthplace of Italy's most multifaceted cultural movement could only be a cultural evening in which the many facets of Futurism come together.

The 'noisy music' of the famous 'zang tumbtumb', a menu deliberately 'experimenting with the avant-garde', readings extolling the 'action of speed' and, as a frame, works of art inspired by the futurist architecture of the Sant'Elia; during the evening, no detail escaped the #PhotoVideo footage of G-Design®.

An #Event that saw 'site-specific' plexiglass installations that honoured some of the most utopian and visionary projects left on paper by the futurist architect Sant'Elia; projects that then inspired the concept of the evening's iconic gadget: the Antiposata.

Created as an iconic design object with the intention of combining the functions of the three main cutlery items, fork, knife and spoon, while at the same time making it impossible to use, the Antiposata accompanied the evening's diners with puzzled and intrigued looks.

Its essence, of pure futurist avant-garde, was only revealed at the end after the object had been gripped, twirled in the air, placed under the teeth, in short, studied in great detail but without actually conceiving its use.

Because in fact it has no function even if one tries to find one: Antiposata is pure aesthetics in its uselessness.

The Centenary of Futurism in Mantua proved to be a unique evening that, as can be perceived from the #GraphicDesign of the poster, honoured and made the diners present dream with poetic lightness.