Opinion Ciatti Rug Multicoloured Textile. Dimensions: 200 × 300 cm –
Thickness: 1.8 cm. “A window on the world to which we belong”: this is how
Italian designer Marcantonio likes to describe his Cielo and Terra rugs. These
representations of nature in the style of ancient frescoes are a way of always
keeping in mind the world from which we come, the animals we would have met
while walking in the forests several millennia ago, and the sky we would have
seen when looking up to catch a ray of sunshine. This luxuriant nature populated
by animals of all kinds could have been the view of the first men evolving in
their environment. Cielo and Terra rugs encourage us to reflect on the fact
that, in history, tools influenced not only our interaction with the
environment, but the art forms we used to represent it as well. These rugs
reproduce scenes of flora and fauna in a style that largely recalls 17th-century
images. An era which for the first time provided a “modern interpretation”
of nature as the origin of all life, a living whole intrinsically linked to
humanity because biodiversity is us, ourselves and everything that lives on
earth. This creation is part of the „Atavica“ capsule collection created by
Italian designer Marcantonio. This symbolic collection brings together objects
with a “primitive” morphology. Here, Marcantonio explores the relationship
between Man and his environment, from prehistoric times to the present day. How
has the relationship between man and his environment changed over the millennia?
What distinguishes the interaction between today's man and the space in which
he moves, from that which was created between the first inhabitants of the
planet and the nature that surrounded them? The Atavicase collection includes
the Cielo and Terra rugs, Primasedia chair, Selce mirror and Ramo coat stand.
All these objects share a powerful objective: to be the 2.0 expression of
ancient materials and symbols.
