Marta Dell'Angelo (artist)

Contemporary art, design and architecture no longer have such hard and fast boundaries; we're witnessing overlapping among the different disciplines. That's interesting as long as it just makes us think and doesn't turn into competition between sectors. I've never observed design from a designer's shoes. Design, architecture and publicity sometimes outstrip art. It's all based on the idea that design is underpinned by practicality, art by non-practicality, and architecture lies somewhere in the middle as it shares both traits. My own first experience of a design object was at a dinner. I sat there for hours and in the end I got up and picked up my chair, which was a super-light Giò Ponti. It dawned on me that all the poetry of that work lay in its lightness. These are the design works I find most interesting, especially when they emerge by serendipity. Generally in the design world they take iconographic motifs and turn them into objects in giving them a purpose. Sometimes it comes off, sometimes not.