“Martino Gamper: Condominium” is at Franco Noero Gallery from Sept. 22 to Oct. 24.
To New Yorkers Coach Online Store, the word “condo” can bring up cringe-worthy thoughts of the characterless Coach Online Store, paper-thin new builds going up in every unclaimed inch of Manhattan. But “Condominium,” a new exhibition by the designer Martino Gamper at the Franco Noero gallery in Turin, Italy, is anything but characterless.
To prepare the show Coach Online Store, Gamper lived in the gallery for six weeks, constructing site-specific furniture installations on each of the nine floors (including two basement levels) of the 1860 wedge-shaped building. “Each floor takes on a different character of the various people that have lived there or that I met there,” said Gamper, describing a running narrative, the conceptual underpinning for the show. Gamper collected found objects and furniture from around Turin — items like cupboards, tables, night tables, chairs and lamps, mostly from the 1950s through ’70s — which he then dismantled and reassembled into new hybrids. The result is wonderfully topsy-turvy: a chair becomes a clothes rack, a lacquered cabinet becomes a jagged corner-shelving unit, and geometric bins seem too beautiful to throw trash into. Now only if Gamper could create one of these “condominiums” in New York, we’d be in business.
Courtesy of Franco Noero GalleryAn installation view of Martino Gamper’s “Condominium.”
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