The only way to understand the thinking, method and work of Enzo Mari – who has produced almost 1800 designs in over fifty years – is to start from two fixed points: a commitment towards total quality and the ethic to apply to every single aspect of a project.

This is what two of his ex collaborators, Alessio Bozzer and Beatrice Mascellani have done, founders of the Associazione Culturale Terre d’Arte together with Marco Minuz and curators of the excellent exhibition “Questo non è uno scolapasta”, (“This is not a colander”), showing in the galleries of the Palazzo Gopcevich from April 11 to May 21. Featuring the voices of a number of designers, journalists, entrepreneurs and architects (Ettore Sottsass, Andrea Branzi, Alberto Alessi, Alberto Bassi and Cini Boeri), the exhibition reveals one of the leading artists and designers of our times.

The invitation extended to visitors, suggested in the somewhat surrealist title, is to judge what they see with their own means because, explain the curators “a design object is not just what you see but everything that it represents”. E.S.