CRO – Design sculpture installation
CRO is a design sculpture exhibited at TRIENNALE DESIGN MUSEUM in Milan 2016 and at MONDO MENDINI exhibition in Groninger (NL) 2019/2020. Cro is a sculpture which is firmly supported by three feet; it frees its arms into space to evoke the powerful grace of a mysterious winged metaphor. A gesture of reverence and gratitude to Mother Earth, and of belonging to the female gender. CRO is the narration and symbolic representation of the process of mutation from performance through to a material form: the passage from the expression and theatricality of the human body, into the material object form.
Designer: Anna Gili
Year: 2016
Dimensions
Height: 216 cm
Width: 236 cm
Depth: 108.5 cm
ABOUT ME
"The first thing I had from Anna was one of her armchairs with a very elongated back, purchased for our Alessi Study Center in Milan in the early 1990s. That armchair seems to me to represent her way of designing well: soft but tapered, an unusual piece of design for that time, an armchair fit for a fairytale queen…""
Dr. Alberto Alessi,
President of ALESSI S.p.A.
head of Marketing Strategy, Communications, and Design Management.
"Here at the Groninger Museum we see, admire and – not the least – love to rest on Anna Gili’s wonderful “canoes” every day. They combine the best of Italian design: form and function, colour and humour."
Prof. Dr. AndreasBlühm
Algemeen Directeur
GRONINGER MUSEUM
"Anna Gili brought the colors of Umbria to Milan, the oldest colors in Italy, powerful, strong, dazzling. A quality born from an innate unconsciousness. Anna Gili is animated by a radiating vital breath and in great harmony with the kingdom of animals, often the main protagonists in the environments she creates. An etymologically fantastic world"
Jean Blanchaert
Blanchaert Art Gallery
"Anna Gili's furniture is the fairy-tale enclosure in which playful abstract forms, of artifice and nature, are gathered and freely distributed, inhabiting a dream of familiar and spontaneous joyfulness, to spread an aura of serene quiet over the course of a daily life of happy calm and playful harmony of the states of the soul. Around these clear and naive silent presences, the simple and varied chromaticism of its object space unfolds".
Prof. Arch. Riccardo Cecchini
Academy of Fine Art - Verona, Italy
“With a three-decade-long career that unfolded smack in the heart of the Milan art and design scene, Anna Gili doesn’t need to mince words...”
Wava Carpenter
Design Curator Miami Art Basel
“Patience, constancy and perseverance in working with talent, tenacity and humility so that her own intuitions and perceptions can come to light and become everyday objects with a soul... ”
François Zille
Visual antropologist
"78 objects of zoomorphic derivation in the course of a designer are such that they cannot be ascribed to chance, not even to the passion for the four-legged friends with whom they live ... Her work goes beyond the playful in favor of the symbolic, and this changes everything..."
Cristina Miglio
Architect
“The application of a careful hypothesis of classicism is a way of designing that is not main stream, but it is found in the refined white and go/d collection that Anna Gili, whose presence and demeanor are a/so beyond actual trends, has made for Post Design.”
Alessandro Mendini
Architect