Breathing down your neck is a piece of contemporary jewelry in steel,
it speaks to the pride of the condemned
to the constant bullfight against time.
It's the translation of an ordinary moment of agitation
an ordinary day: fast 'n' furious and precious.
It's an unexpected gem like featherweight thoughts,
asymmetrical like a morning rain,
disordered like the dreams of freedom.
Breathing down your neck is a whispered wish
for our unstable survival,
for timeless beauty
in a world that knows no time.
(Mario Trimarchi)
Trimarchi Mario
Mario Trimarchi, born in Sicily, has lived and worked in Milan since 1983. An architect of the “freehand” generation, he has always moved freely within the visual universe and considers drawing, photography, design and image as equal components with the same theoretical approach.
Between 1994 and 1998 Trimarchi was Director of Advanced Design at the Domus Academy and from 1989 to 2000 was part of the Olivetti Design Studio, where he worked with Michele De Lucchi. In 1999 he founded his own Corporate Identity Care studio, FRAGILE.
With FRAGILE he designs systems of identity, coordinated image and visual alphabets through which diverse individualities can be expressed. He has designed many trademarks, most notably for Poste Italiane, the graphics for numerous large exhibitions, communications systems for Italian design companies and, finally, many displays and interiors. Never relinquishing his passion for drawing, architecture or design, he is currently working on the theme of unstable geometries, which he utilises within the context of our relationships with everyday objects in an attempt to change, however slightly, our habitual patterns of living.
Graphic concept, templating and develop
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