Serra Bassa
Spigolature (Gleanings)
A two-sided partition element designed by Antonio Barone consists of a pair of movable textile panels handmade by Susanna Costantini on a traditional frame. The fabric is supported by a self-supporting lightweight structure composed of modular, decomposable aluminium elements. The "edging" becomes a metaphor for the selective process of memory and research that enhances the marginal and forgotten element. In this dialogue between
preservation and abandonment, the textile act is transformed into existential discernment.
For the panels, Susanna Costantini uses recovered yarns and fragments of warps
from previous processes, elevating this ancestral technique to conceptual methodology. The recovered yarns become geometric inserts and abstract shapes that emerge from the weaving as elements of discontinuity or complex elaborations.
The 'Spigolature' therefore stand as testimonies of a transformative process that continually redefines the boundary between ephemeral and permanent, reflecting the mechanism of memory when recording experience: some elements settle as memories, others vanish.
From a functional point of view, the installation on a mobile support allows the fabric to oscillate, creating a fluid separation that evokes the very movement of memory: a filter that now holds, now lets through, in a perpetual dialogue between memory and oblivion.
Susanna Costantini is a self-taught weaver with a background in sociology of communication. She explores the narrative power of analog language through textile art. Her works are woven on a traditional loom and manifest as abstract landscapes, maps, and imagined spaces where shapes and colors guide the observer towards personal interpretations. Her works are featured in the catalogs of several Digital Galleries for Contemporary Design and Curatorial Platforms for Independent Design; she creates works on commission and handles the prototyping and creation of hand-woven components for design projects.
Antonio Barone studied Industrial and Exhibit Design at the Politecnico di Milano and has worked in architecture and industrial design studios, including James Irvine in Milan and OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, as a product, furniture, and exhibition designer. His works include the 'Tools for Life' furniture collection and pavilions for Knoll, the exhibition design for 'Elements of Architecture' at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, and various furniture, exhibition, retail design, and workspace projects. He collaborates with companies on the design and development of custom interiors and furniture.