“First the idea, then the product.” Whether or not we share Rosario Hurtado and Roberto Feo’s philosophy for new experimental design, there’s no mistaking that their solutions are both exciting and highly provocative and could just make for a more intelligent and certainly more ironic future.
Dialogues, their current exhibition at the Aram Gallery in London - also celebrating the publication of their latest book Abandon Architectures - features works such as Imaginary Architectures, a series of large blown glass installation pieces that explore architectural archetypes (such as theatres, hotels, thermal baths, housing and car parks) created with master glassblowers in Italy.
To quote from their latest book, their work “reflects upon their interest in how contemporary culture incorporates, re-uses and re-interprets the systems and structures that it has inherited.” And from here, the dynamic duo - who are also university professors – can do nothing less than go forth and multiply, continuing to create new and highly alternative solutions for new forms of life…