Neominimal, even primitive

Pure geometric forms and white surfaces and imperfections troubled by signs featuring the latest works of Nucleo the Turin team active in the field of art, design and architecture.

The home page of the site, www.nucleo.to, opens with a man, talking head and eyes closed, still like sleeping. Clicking on a Liguid, white and dense, it starts trickling down the face. Everything happens in slow motion. When the liquid covers the entire face, his mouth open in a scream wild and primitive. This image better than any other we ferries in the world of Nucleus, an interdisciplinary team, based in Turin, active in the field of contemporary art, design and architecture.

The works of Nucleo directed by Piergiorgio Robino since 1997 and composed by Stefania Fersini, Alice Charlotte Occleppo and Daniele Ragazzo, have already been exhibited at MoMa in New York and the Beaubourg in Paris. ll white cola on the site and the heart of their latest collection is called Primitive and has just been exposed by Secondome in Rome. The furnishings are all unique, hand-made with non-toxic resins and without form. Each subject repeated pure geometric forms juxtaposed, as in a combination of solids. The result is reminiscent of some results of abstract sculpture, as in previous upholstered furniture, made ​​for Meritalia, where core was inspired molecular structures. Here, tables, chairs, lamps and libraries, from the ultra-minimal, reveal a troubled area of signs and of imperfections. In a word, primitive.