Milan Design Week 2016 is an opportunity for Sarpi Bridge_Oriental Design Week to consolidate the bridge with China, in partnership with Design Radio, emerging Chinese media that works to promote the design and Jillion Art Collective in Shanghai that deals with design and contemporary art.
With them Sarpi Bridge_Oriental Design Week promotes in Opificio 31 of Tortona design district the exhibition OO!CHINA, a significant exposure where China surprises, “oo!”, between art and design, a glimpse of a much project wide that will be accomplished in the coming months.
In OO!CHINA the “bridge” is not only between East and West but also between art and design, because the exhibitors have created using both the artistic thought that the expressive power of design, focusing on the research of materials and trying to combine aesthetics and functionality. Their projects were selected because they are the result of the optimization of the traditional Chinese process: from a simple concept is created through the material and the ability to expression an interesting project, valuable cargo.
The background is full of multiple identities, some of them are architects, others curators, artists, designers, writers and even scholars and researchers of Buddhism. The curator is Sun Chenzhu, project director is Fan Yiping and in exhibition there are Hu Jian, Ivan Cheng, Li Hanyuan, Liu Tao, Liu Yi, Liu Yichun, Tan Zhipeng, Wu Hao, Xiao Aibin, Zhang Muchen, Zhang Zhaoying.
OO!CHINA 设计之外
Milan Design Week 12 to 17 april 2016