Plastic Days. Materiali e Design. Ediz. Italiana e Inglese

The exhibition catalogue Plastic Days arises from the analysis and the selection of about 600 items from Fondazione Plart, "Plastiche e Arte" by Maria Pia Incutti- Paliotto's collection, and it is made up like an original narration of the big various family of plastic materials.
A witness which tells about the transformations occurred in the last 150 years of history and which reveals the innermost nature of modernity and of the mutations that marked the domestic and cultural landscape in which we are immersed. Plastic becomes a magnifying glass focused on the social and economical dynamics of our time.
The items on display represent a well-structured selection of quite rare artefacts from all around the world: first production series, mass production items by famous or anonymous designers. This selection is not intended to offer an accurate reconstruction of the history of plastic materials, but to make up an exhibition which can outline a particular reading path of our time, reinterpreted through a multidisciplinary approach between design, art and custom.
It would be unthinkable today to spend a whole day without using any tool made of plastic. The exhibition offers a rich multidisciplinary path among art, design and custom illustrating the fascinating history of a material which characterized and influenced our times and everyday habits. An original and involving atlas of contemporaneity.
contributions in the catalogue by: Alba Cappellieri, Laura Cherubini, Stefano Catucci, Gianluigi Ricuperati, Thea van Oosten and Anna Laganà.
interviews with: Andrea Branzi, Donato D'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Alessandro Mendini, Maurizio Montalti/Officina Corpuscoli, Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin/Studio Formafantasma, Gaetano Pesce and Maria Pia Incutti, collector and president of Fondazione Plart.
sections of the exhibition: "Pre-synthetic Plastic: Between Imitation and New Identity", "Bakelite: the First Synthetic Plastic", "Made in Italy Innovation: from Moplen to Golden Age of Design", "The Sounds of Plastic", "Plastic Vanity", "Plastic Play", "Contemporary Alchemies".