Reivindicando La Imperfección

Deanna Comellini

31/10/02. (Sala 207)

Assorted carpets series

31/10/2002 to 30/11/2002

With the utmost respect for imperfection and against the culture of rejection of differences and defect and also against the myth of perfection, fed by industrial design, Deanna Comellini restores a creative value to imperfection, whose maximum expression is even linked to the wisdom of the craftsman who makes the object.

When four-fifths of the population live in conditions of subsistence and submission and 80% of the labor force is unskilled, mass production should be rethought. Deanna’s “imperfect design” seems to be more humane, truer, more authentic, and certainly more suited to the times.

In the world of the global economy, with its democratic perspectives, diversity is a fundamental value. It is in diversity that people’s dreams, enthusiasms and ideals are manifested.

The “Kama Collection”; “CoconutRug Limited Edition” and “CoconutRug Extra Collection”, which will be on display at La Sala Vinçon from October 31 to November 23, 2001, propose a design and a study of proportions closely linked to the nature of the material: a line of color at the edge; a seam of large stitches that, like a scar, rejoins elements of the same nature but of different colors; a relief of tone on tone that becomes design: a gigantic weft in which the material, wrongly defined “less appreciated” recovers the beauty of its imperfection.

The weavers in India who work with GT (Deanna Comellini and Michele Preti’s company) are also co-authors of what they do. Thus both the material, an extraordinary coconut dyed with non-toxic colors and hand-woven, and its thickness, its roughness, and the different behavior when the color varies, are also at the same time protagonists and authors.

The carpets and curtains made by DC are objects that have the value of difference, even in mass production. The user will appreciate it even before assessing its functionality.