Cubes in Motion: an example of Manydee collaboration
The intention of the Cubes in Motion – Embassy of Biella and Piedmont Territory project is to initiate a process of creative collaboration among the C.N.A. Confederazione Nazionale dell’Artigianato (National Confederation of Crafts), La Tavola dell’Orso, the craftsmen of Piedmont excellence and the artists of Manydee, the international network of former UNIDEE residents.
Aim: conceiving 8 cubes from international artists, realised from selected Piedmont artisans in order to promote the productive abilities of the Biella and Piedmont Territory, which are also used as display unit for the products of the Consortium La Tavola dell’Orso.
The project wants to propose as a model the idea that Biella and Piedmont crafting excellence embodies in products of the highest quality the district’s cultural and environmental values.
In this direction, in the Biella and Piedmont territory the quality of product will become quality of life.
In this vision there is a meaningful correspondence between the productive fabric and the life of the socio-cultural fabric.
The vitality of the social fabric is the fruit of the organic relationships between the various elements that make up the territory, on one hand, and the global dimension on the other.
This quality of life is founded on the concept of glocalisation, that complex economic and cultural system of reference originating from the fusion of local networks with the planetary weave.
The proposed concepts will have to be in the shape of a cube, the basic module of a variable, transformable, adaptable to different spaces.
Some images of the very first cubes realized for the project (May 2006, photos courtesy of Ruben Bena)
Artist: Juan Sandoval (Colombia) > Craftsman: aluminium – Fossati Marco >
Producer: Az. Agr. di Maria Chiara Reda – Cajanto wine
Artist: Margarita Vazquez Ponte (Scotland) > Craftsman: wood – Pigato Roberto > Producer: Liquorificio Rapa Giovanni Ratafià
Artist: Alejandro Vàsques Salinas (Colombia) >
Craftsman: marble and stone – Romanelli Marco > Producer: Caseificio Rosso
