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December 1, 2021

Albini Group supports CirculART II – ART INTERWOVEN WITH THE SUPPLY CHAIN

Albini Group is partner of the second edition of CirculART, the project that brings together companies, artists and fashion designers, to give life to new forms of language capable of inspiring change. There are four artists involved in CirculART II – Silvia Giovanardi, Ryts Monet, Giulia Pellegrini and Marcello Pipitone – and thirteen excellent textile companies with which they have been called to confront.

Through the works created for the project companies and artists tell how one can be an innovator, bringing concrete elements of social resilience and drawing inspiration for the current needs of the ecosystem in which the new humanity is taking shape. CirculART II thus becomes the starting point of a new path aimed at finding a balance between business, society and nature.

The creative point of view on the industrial reality by the artists involved in the CirculART II project will serve to outline and reveal, in four original works of art, new design paradigms based on circular economy and ethics. A work that aim to inspire not only the textile industry, but all production sectors, to realign their activities with the ultimate promise of doing business: responding to the real needs of humanity.

Traceability of the entire production chain, transparency of production processes and social responsibility are essential requirements of Albini Group’s modus operandi, one of the pioneers of sustainable change that the fashion industry is experiencing. We therefore welcomed Circulart’s invitation with great enthusiasm and we are proud to be part of this ambitious project, with which we share ideas, logic and objectives. It is also thanks to events like this that it is possible to spread the importance of sustainability in our sector and to witness the steps that the textile world is taking in this direction.

Stefano Albini, President of Cotonificio Albini S.P.A.

The projects
Giulia Pellegrini‘s project “ABITO” starts from a reflection on the apparel as a second skin. She questions the relationship between body-dress and raw material-fabric. We usually add a second skin to the one that limit our body: the apparel. And it has the double function of hiding and exalting.
In the work, 5 fabrics of natural origin (silk, cotton, linen, lyocell, wool, alpaca) are dyed with Robbia and the Red Herculaneum natural earth in order to show how each fiber can absorb and soak up the red color in a different way. A colour, symbol of blood that flows in our body nourishing it and at the same time an image of vital energy, able to affect our heartbeat and blood pressure. Each fabric invites the public to give value to this second skin through extensions that allow it not only contact with the fiber but above all contact with the other.
Giulia Pellegrini presents also “AMBIENTE”: an installation where the subject is the production waste that can be crossed and completed by the public.

Marcello Pipitone presents “Meetings and meetings over time”, a project that develops into a large installation with the use of different materials and processes; his project of a huge hourglass where “time” escapes is a metaphor of time that ends, of the need for awareness of our actions regarding the environment and production. The work relates an external structure made of light fabrics with an interior of colored fabrics that can be extracted through openings closed with zips.

Ryts Monet presents the project “WORLD MAP”, that takes place from a reflection on the balances and imbalances in economic and political relations on a global level. Ryts has created a work of art that starts from an image of the world map designed by subtraction, wearing down and consuming a support of denim fabrics. The intention of the work is to raise questions about the impact that the market and production in far away countries has and will have in the future.

Silvia Giovanardi with her “FREEDOM” proposes the creation of a performance that celebrates the concept of freedom linked to love. Love for oneself, for others and for the environment. In her performance the fabrics have the shape of wings, two people meet and move around the exhibition space and finally open a banner with the words “freedom is love”.