Futuro Luce presents the event "Notturno Siciliano" - from 14 April to 15 May in Milan, Cascina Cuccagna.
Notturno Siciliano is a project born from the collaboration between the architect Marco Merendi and the entrepreneur Rosario Parrinello owner of the company Made a Mano. From 14 April to 15 May, in the milan frame of Cascina Cuccagna, Futuro Luce will illuminate the laboratory devoted to the exhibition.
The idea: Notturno Siciliano
Sicily recounted in a room out of time: lava stone, intimate matters of this land, and light that runs on its surface. Fragments of memory move between day and night, in a metaphysical space in sky, land and sea.
The project: The tile phosphorescent
The project Notturno Siciliano relies on the use of tiles with a special surface finish phosphorescent. A new concept of coating, a new developed and tested in recent months with the company Made a Mano that allows you to play with the light and the dark. The idea is to create magical qualities and veiled in which the decorations and patterns become protagonists of the space even when the light is turned off. In this way the decorations of the tiles take shape and become three-dimensional, highlighting the volumes of the architecture. To operate the phosphorescent tiles there is a need for light: this is the reason for which we have thought up a great backlit image of a landscape typical sicilian as the slopes of Mount Etna, a place which gave birth to the lavic stone.
The location: Cascina Cuccagna
Project Cuccagna retrieves the public use of the citizens the precious and great open spaces of the eighteenth century homonymous farmhouse, heretofore crumbling and abandoned, to make it a meeting place and aggregation, a laboratory of active culture, a point of reference for the common search for social wellbeing and quality of life.
The protagonists
Rosario Parrinello: He founded in 2001 the company Made a Mano, reality specializing in processing and transformations of the clays and lavic stone. The company was founded in Caltagirone (Sicily) a town some 60 km from Etna, unique and exclusive source of all the productions of products in lava stone.
Marco Merendi: He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Florence, from 1996 deals with design and research and development of products. Just graduated collaborates with the Dutch study ‘LITE in lighting design for large spaces, as long as the passion for the world of motors brings it in Italy with in project for Minardi Formula 1 and the Team Honda Gresini. Consultant for studies of architectures and private Italian companies, today also teaches at the Polytechnic of Design of Milan.
