APHANÈS
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We are thrilled to share with you APHANÈS the new project of Roberto Sironi.
At the heart of the project lies a reverence for the material itself: the two selected stones were extracted decades ago from quarries that are no longer active, without any certain information about their geographical origin. The material’s most prominent feature is of course its extraordinary internal structure that, with the appropriate cutting and finishing, reveals exquisite patterns and shapes in an arresting kaleidoscope of yellows, greens, and purples. All objects part of the Aphanès collection are handmade near Verona, in Italy’s leading marble region, using custom finishing by hand for each object, in order to highlight the details of the material itself and to expose the beauty that is hidden inside the stone.
This process of revealing what is hidden within the stone lends the project its title, with aphanès being an Ancient Greek word meaning that which does not appear, something hidden. In that sense, the design process becomes one of exposing the ‘nude nature’ of the stone, with an emphasis on allowing what nature has formed over millions of years, to show. The result of more than two years of research and careful work with the available material, Aphanès respects the original formation process of these stones, with the understanding that their intricate patterns are a visual documentation of the history of the earth itself. Through these micro-megalithic meditations, Roberto Sironi expands his years-long interest in matter-research and its archeological approach into a new visual and formal language.
The collection Aphanès comprises a bench, side tables, coffee tables and low tables, a console and a desk — all cut from blocks of rare marble in super-limited editions.
Show dates: May 6th – June 18th, 2023
CARWAN GALLERY
Polidefkous 39, 18545, Piraeus-Athens, Greece
+30 2104114536
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