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Artist Annarita Bianco for 'Meristėma Lab'
is the winner of a special Award with Mydaybyday Gallery at the Legnica Silver Festival 2021 edition!
Please Follow this amazingly talented Italian artist.
is the winner of a special Award with Mydaybyday Gallery at the Legnica Silver Festival 2021 edition!
Please Follow this amazingly talented Italian artist.
Artist Annarita Bianco for 'Meristema Lab'
After graduating in architectural design and practicing graphic design Annarita Bianco started combining practical making and theoric research by training as a goldsmith. As a freelance designer she blurs boundaries among disciplines under the alias of 'Merıstėma Lab'. Through her design practice attempts to hybridise traditional craft and technological progress, analogical and digital, biological and artificial.
Blurring boundaries among disciplines, Merıstėma Lab is an experimental design studio. As in an alchemist laboratory, matter changes, substances melt, materials transform and suggestions coming from different fields merge to assume a different state. Like meristem – plants undifferentiated cells capable of cell division- any concept could take a shape that crosses traditional design fields: jewellery, graphic design, objects that hybridate traditional craft and technological progress, analogical and digital, biological and artificial.
Blurring boundaries among disciplines, Merıstėma Lab is an experimental design studio. As in an alchemist laboratory, matter changes, substances melt, materials transform and suggestions coming from different fields merge to assume a different state. Like meristem – plants undifferentiated cells capable of cell division- any concept could take a shape that crosses traditional design fields: jewellery, graphic design, objects that hybridate traditional craft and technological progress, analogical and digital, biological and artificial.
Artist Annarita Bianco for 'Meristėma Lab'
"The 3020 project is a possible scenario that depicts a future 1000 years from now. It tries to imagine how e-waste, the physical debris of the immaterial digital era, interferes in geological processes.
Inspired by three main lithogenetic processes - sedimentary, magmatic and metamorphic - I have created three different kinds of synthetic rocks, which include usb cable waste. These cables are made up of an alloy of copper and silver. Cut, oxidized, heated and granulated, the transformed wire is embedded in an epoxy resin casting. These new gems are setted on a silver sheet whose shape is the result of two tangent circles which stand for natural and artificial realms establishing a connection first (T brooch set), that goes towards a complete overlap (U brooch set). Graphical patterns, which are laser engraved on a silver sheet, represent an attempt to put together digital features and natural rock texture: a symbiosis of natural and post-digital fascination. Parallel layers inspired by sedimentary rock are translated into a corrupted signal, a glitch noise pattern. Porous volcanic rock recalls a dotted pattern which refers to hole punched cards used in early computers to contain digital data. Deformation waves typical in metamorphic rocks become a wind of bits, a visual representation of digital dataflow filling cyberspace." Annarita Bianco
Inspired by three main lithogenetic processes - sedimentary, magmatic and metamorphic - I have created three different kinds of synthetic rocks, which include usb cable waste. These cables are made up of an alloy of copper and silver. Cut, oxidized, heated and granulated, the transformed wire is embedded in an epoxy resin casting. These new gems are setted on a silver sheet whose shape is the result of two tangent circles which stand for natural and artificial realms establishing a connection first (T brooch set), that goes towards a complete overlap (U brooch set). Graphical patterns, which are laser engraved on a silver sheet, represent an attempt to put together digital features and natural rock texture: a symbiosis of natural and post-digital fascination. Parallel layers inspired by sedimentary rock are translated into a corrupted signal, a glitch noise pattern. Porous volcanic rock recalls a dotted pattern which refers to hole punched cards used in early computers to contain digital data. Deformation waves typical in metamorphic rocks become a wind of bits, a visual representation of digital dataflow filling cyberspace." Annarita Bianco
Artist Annarita Bianco for 'Meristėma Lab'
Artist Annarita Bianco for 'Meristėma Lab'
