Mauro Mori

works

Quella di Mauro Mori è una produzione ormai vastissi-ma, che include oggetti grandi e piccoli, pezzi unici e limited edition, forme tridimensionali che si ergono autonome nello spazio e contemporanee declinazioni dell’opera a bassorilievo, plastiche modulazioni da comporre e articolare a parete in modi diversi e liberi. È una produzione che oggi sintetizza e racconta oltre vent’anni di ricerca e di lavoro ispirati e improntati dal sentimento per la materia. Una materia di origine naturale, calda e malleabile come il legno o inflessibile e resistente come il marmo, dalla quale Mauro Mori ha estratto elementi d’ar-redo sinuosi e privi di giunture. Esempi unici e affascinanti come sculture, invariabilmente generati da un’abilità manuale innata e straordinaria, un tocco potente, sensibile e sensuale che ne ha ricercato, definito e rifinito le linee, le superfici, i volumi, le contrapposizioni di vuoto e di pieno, il carattere pri-mitivo e minimale, assegnando a ogni singola forma una reale o ipotetica simbolica funzione. E generando così una serie di domestici totemici monoliti, divagazioni plastiche con i piedi per terra, che arricchiscono l’habitat di memorie ancestrali, emblematici rimandi alla natura e al paesaggio, agli odori, i colori, le prerogative tattili e le consistenze di legni, marmi o metalli, le culture di paesi diversi. Forme evocative, ineludibili emozionanti presenze, oggetti free-standing o wall sculptures, che paiono rompere le demarcazioni tra arte e design, creazione e progettazione, ragione e istinto, per trasformare l’oggetto d’uso in un’immagine che lo rappresenta, lo interpreta e lo sintetizza. Un’immagine compatta e nitida, dai contorni ricer-cati e ben definiti, che contrasta con lo sfondo e si staglia nello spazio, creando nette, fotografiche contrapposizioni di luce

That of Mauro Mori is at this point a very large produc-tion, including big and small objects, unique pieces and limited editions, three dimensional forms that stand autonomous in the space and contemporary low reliefs, sculptural modules to be combined and articulated on the wall in free different ways. It is a production that synthetizes and documents today over twenty years of researching, experimenting and being inspired by the sensitivity for the material. Material with natural origins, warm and malleable like wood or either inflexible and resistent like marble, from whom Mauro Mori has deduced sinuose de-prived of junctions pieces. Furniture samples unique and fasci-nating like sculptures, invariably generated by an innate ex-traordinary manual ability, a powerful, sensitive and sensual touch that shaped, defined and finished their lines, surfaces, volumes, their juxstapositions of full and empty, their primitive and minimal style, assigning to any single form a real or either supposed symbolic function. Therefore generating a series of domestic totemic monoliths, sculptural divagations with feet on the ground, enriching the habitat of ancestral memories, em-blematic references to nature and to lanscape, to smells, colors, tactile prerogatives and consistencies of wood, marble or metal, to different countries’ culture. Evocative shapes, unmistakeable touching presences, free-standing or wall sculptures that seem to break the line between art and design, creating and project-ing, instictive or rational processing, to transform the func-tional object in an image indeed representing, evoking, synthe-tising it. The image of a tidy and compact form, with refined and well defined outlines, which opposes the background and stands out in the space, to produce neat, photographic juxtapo-

e ombra, vuoto e pieno, piani squadrati e volumi stondati. E diventa racconto di passionali incontri e confronti con scenari diversi, dai tronchi di Albizia rosa delle Seychelles ai blocchi di marmo bianco lavorati in loco nelle cave di Carrara, e dal-le consistenze ostiche di legni esotici e preziosi come l’ebano alla metropolitana inflessibilità dei metalli. Modi di forgiare, plasmare, dedurre e poi estrarre da un tutto informe oggetti di forma particolare, sottili e svettanti, leggiadri e semoventi. Oggetti one-piece concepiti come virtuali, illusori assemblaggi, sovrapposizioni di moduli diversi. Pezzi unici e limited edition, che fanno confluire e condensano in oggetti grandi e piccoli, elementi e complementi d’arredo una sofisticata varietà di scelte estetiche e competenze tecniche. Wall sculptures, come Four Levels, un’articolazione di moduli squadrati, entro cui si stratificano piani irregolari di metallo, quattro lastre squarciate che lo sguardo può attraversare fino a specchiarsi sullo sfondo, che paiono sintetizzare un viaggio introspettivo. Un percorso esperenziale, che, a partire dal corpo, si addentra nella mente e nella coscienza, fino a raggiungere l’anima, mettendo in risalto una volontà di trascendere la materia, di renderla imprevedibil-mente eloquente e sensibile. O più in generale, wall sculptures come articolazione, aggregazione e sovrapposizione di elementi squadrati o stondati, che rimandano all’organica proliferazione delle cellule o ai livelli dell’umano sentire e aspirano a trasfor-mare l’opera di design in un’opera tout-court. Testimonianze di un fare che è frutto di intuizione e di ingegno, un istinto a liberare la materia, che consente a Mauro Mori di scorgere a priori, tra venature, colori e consistenze di legni marmi, metalli o pietre, la fisionomia dell’oggetto da realizzare.

sitions of light and darkness, fullness and emptyness, squared planes and rounded volumes. An image which tells of passional meetings and involvements with different settings, from the trunks of Seychelles pink Albitia to the blocks of white marble carved on location in the Carrara’s quarries, and from the tough consistency of the exotic precious ebony to the metals’ urban inflexibility. Ways of molding, shaping, deducting and taking out from an informal whole objects with a peculiar form, thin, standing out, graceful and automotive. One-piece objects con-ceived like virtual, deceptive assemblages, inlaying and juxta-posing the shape of various elements. Unique pieces or limited editions making flow and condensing into large or small objects, furnishing elements or accessories a sophisticated variety of aesthetic choices and technical expertises. Wall sculptures like Four Levels which articulates squared modules containing ir-regular planes of metal, four ripped plates that the gaze can cross until getting to mirror itself in the background, that seem to synthetize an introspective journey. An experiencing path that, by starting from the body, enters the mind and the con-sciousness, and reaches the soul, emphasizing a will to transcend the material, to make it especially eloquent and sensible. Wall sculptures like aggregations and juxtapositions of rounded or squared elements, that evoke the organic proliferation of cells or the different levels of human feeling and tend to transform the piece of design in an art piece. Attesting a work which is fruit of intuition and genius, instinct to let the material run wild, Mauro Mori’s way to perceive in advance, through vein-ings, chromatisms and consistencies of woods and marbles, metals or stones, the fisionomy of the next object to realize.

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art furniture

unlimited editions

b-way 2016

b-way low table 2016

consoil 2016

tono 2016

movimento 4 fondente 2014

tweedy 2014

avenue fondente 2013

consolle fondente 2013

ioegio fondente copper 2013

movimento basso fondente 2013

piramidone fondente 2013

eye tables 2009

biplan 2008

maxi circusfondente 2008

tavolo tondo fondente 2008

tip tapfondente 2008

dune 2007

maxi circus 2007

ioegio 2006

piramidone 2006

smith 2004

doppio movimento 4 2003

movimento basso 2002

movimento 4 2002

avenue 2001

tavolo tondo 2001

piramidi 2000

tip tap 2000

cilindo 1999

cubica 1997

contenitore modulare 1996

square long 1995

the wall 1995

tono 2016—‘fondente’ copper

ø cm 60 × 45 h

[ unlimited editionconsoil 2016—light ‘fondente’ copper

cm 180 × 48 × 85 h

b-way low table 2016—mixed media on brass

cm 180 × 90 × 45 h

b-way 2016—mixed media on brass

cm 180 × 45 × 90 h

[ unlimited edition

consoil 2016—light ‘fondente’ copper

cm 180 × 48 × 85 h

piramidi 2000—oxidized aluminum—oxidized copper

cm 60 × 40 × 40 h

piramidone fondente 2013—‘fondente’ copper

cm 60 × 44.5 × 90 h

tweedy 2014—mixed media on alpacca

cm 180 × 45 × 85 h

[ unlimited edition

movimento 4 fondente 2014—‘fondente’ copper

ø cm 64 × 55 h

ioegio fondente copper 2013—‘fondente’ copper

cm 250 × 45 × 35/60 h

[ unlimited edition

consolle fondente 2013—‘fondente’ copper

cm 180 × 48 × 85 h

avenue fondente 2013—‘fondente’ copper

cm 180 × 45 × 40 h

[ unlimited edition

biplan 2008—‘fondente’ bronze

cm 70 × 70 × 45 h

movimento bassofondente 2013—‘fondente’ copper

ø cm 60 × 32 h

[ unlimited edition

[ unlimited editiondoppio movimento 4 2003—oxidized aluminum

ø cm 86 × 45/75 h

movimento basso 2002—albizia wood

ø cm 60 × 32 h

movimento 4 2002—oxidized copper

ø cm 64 × 55 h

tavolo tondofondente 2008—‘fondente’ bronze

ø cm 120 × 78 h

tip tapfondente 2008—‘fondente’ bronze

ø cm 50 × 40 h

[ unlimited editiondune 2007—alpacca

s: cm 90 × 45 × 40 h

m: cm 120 × 45 × 40 h

l: cm 120 × 60 × 40 h

[ unlimited editioneye tables 2009—albizia wood

cm 160 × 68 × 48.5 h

square long 1995—albizia wood

cm 225 × 53 × 42/60 h

immagine okigb evergreen 2013

immagine okigb evergreen 2013

[ unlimited edition[ unlimited edition

cilindo 1999—oxidized aluminum

ø cm 65 × 75 h

avenue 2001—oxidized aluminum

cm 180 × 45 × 40 h

maxi circus 2007—albizia wood

ø cm 100 × 40 h

maxi circusfondente 2008—‘fondente’ copper

ø cm 100 × 40 h

ioegio 2006—oxidized copper

cm 250 × 45 × 35/60 h

immagine okigb evergreen 2013

tip tap 2000—white p marble

ø cm 50 × 40 h

[ unlimited edition[ unlimited edition

tavolo tondo 2001—albizia wood

ø cm 100 × 78 h

contenitore modulare 1996—albizia wood

s: cm 70 × 43 × 40 h

m: cm 180 × 43 × 40 h

l: cm 250 × 43 × 40 h

cubica 1997—albizia wood

cm 60 × 60 × 40/60 h

[ unlimited edition

piramidi 2000—albizia wood— albizia ebony-stained wood

cm 60 × 40 × 40 h

piramidone 2006—albizia wood

cm 69 × 44.5 × 90 h

[ unlimited edition

smith 2004—oxidized copper and lagaty wood

cm 210 × 105 × 78 h

the wall 1995—coconut wood

cm 200 × 180 h

limited editions

tres [ o r i g i n ] 2016

quattuor [ o r i g i n ] 2015

tres [ o r i g i n ] 2015

splash [ o r i g i n ] 2015

movimento basso black/white 2015

sand table 2010

cup 2010

lin table 2008

twins 2006

round 2000

la cosa 1995

art furniture

tres [ o r i g i n ]2016—brass

cm 68 × 36 × 45 h

limited edition 1/9

[ limited edition

quattuor [ o r i g i n ]2015—albizia wood

cm 70 × 33 × 50 h

limited edition 1/9

tres [ o r i g i n ]2015—albizia wood

cm 68 × 36 × 45 h

limited edition 2/9

[ limited edition

movimento basso black2015—marquina marble

ø cm 56 × 32 h

limited edition r+l 2/9

movimento basso white2015—statuario marble

ø cm 56 × 32 h

limited edition r+l 3/9

[ limited edition

twins2006—albizia wood

cm 300 × 55 × 78 h each element

cm 250 × 55 × 78 h each element

limited edition r+l 1/9

[ limited edition

lin table2008—‘fondente’ bronze and crystal

cm 335 × 135 × 75 h

limited edition 3/6

[ limited editionsplash [ o r i g i n ]2015—albizia wood

cm 150 × 55 × 34 h

limited edition 3/9

round2000—albizia wood

ø cm 60 × 40/64 h

limited edition 1/6

cup2010—albizia wood

ø cm 68 × 45 h

limited edition 1/8

[ limited edition

la cosa1995—albizia wood

cm 92 × 76 × 40/90 h

limited edition 3/6

[ limited editionsand table2010—‘fondente’ bronze

cm 250 × 70 × 50 h

limited edition 2/8

one-off

the hidden evidence [ o r i g i n ] 2015

benitier [ o r i g i n ] 2014-2015

eye long 2009

movimento 1—2—5 2002–2003

movimento contenuto 2002

chips long 2001

lady mamba 2001

the head 2001

vov 2001

windy 2001

icaro 2000

ioegio 2000

solitario 2000

curva 1999

trampolino 1997-1999

l’attesa 1996

art furniture

[ one-offthe hidden evidence [ o r i g i n ]2015—albizia wood

ø cm 125 × 74 h

one-off

movimento 12002—albizia wood

ø cm 60 × 98 h

one-off

movimento 22002—albizia wood

ø cm 55 × 92 h

one-off

movimento 52003—albizia wood

ø cm 50 × 93 h

one-off

[ one-offeye long2009—albizia wood

cm 248 × 63 × 50/60 h

private collection

benitier [ o r i g i n ]2014-2015—albizia wood

cm 250 × 71 × 36/47 h

private collection

chips long2001—calacatta marble

cm 220 × 59 × 20/48 h

private collection

vov2001—albizia wood

cm 260 × 96 × 45/75 h

private collection

icaro2000—aluminum and oxidized copper

cm 185 × 48 × 85 h

private collection

trampolino1997-1999—albizia wood

cm 240 × 70 × 47/70 h

private collection

[ one-off[ one-off

solitario2000—white carrara marble

cm 55 × 35 × 100 h

private collection

l’attesa1996—albizia wood

cm 38 × 42 × 100 h

private collection

lady mamba2001—black belgium marble

cm 35 × 26 × 112 h

private collection

ioegio2000—albizia wood

cm 45 × 35/54 × 250 h

artist’s collection

windy2001—white carrara marble

cm 60 × 38 × 94 h

private collection

curva1999—albizia wood

cm 70 × 70 × 42/80 h

private collection

movimento contenuto2002—white p marble

ø cm 60 × 102 h

private collection

the head2001—albizia wood

cm 55 × 53 × 95 h

private collection

[ one-off[ one-off

numberedseries

sculptures

humm 2016

bacio 2007

j lord 2007

the one 2007

ava 2006

both 2006

oliver 2006

pitao 2006

scudo 2006

[ numbered series sculpuresboth2006—paonazzo marble

cm 66 × 30 × 29 h

limited edition 8/9

pitao2006—statuario marble

ø cm 25 × 40 h

limited edition 5/9

ava2006—cipollino marble

ø cm 16 × 35 h

limited edition 6/9

scudo2006—calacatta marble

cm 28 × 16 × 45 h

limited edition 3/8

oliver2006—bronze

cm 17 × 15 × 45 h

limited edition 9/12

scudo2006—black belgium marble

cm 28 × 16 × 45 h

limited edition 4/8

[ numbered series sculpures

[ numbered series sculpureshumm2016—bronze

ø cm 33 × 27 h

limited edition 1/9

the one2007—albizia wood

ø cm 24 × 56 h

limited edition 2/8

j lord2007—bardiglio imperiale marble

cm 15 × 17 × 56 h

limited edition 2/8

bacio2007—albizia wood

cm 28 × 15 × 51 h

limited edition 4/8

wall sculptures

four levels 2016

blossom I—II 2016

leaf 1—7 2016

palms 1—2 2016

cell 1—12 [ o r i g i n ] 2015

andro 2014

eve 2014

my lady 2014

chignon 2 2013

trittico 2013

david 2011

[ wall sculpturesfour levels2016—mixed media on brass

installation of 9 pieces

four levels2016—mixed media on brass

cm 80 × 4 × 80 h

1 of 9 pieces

one-off

[ wall sculpturesfour levels2016—mixed media on brass

cm 80 × 4 × 80 h

4 of 9 pieces

one-off

[ wall sculpturesfour levels2016—mixed media on brass

cm 80 × 4 × 80 h

4 of 9 pieces

one-off

david2011—bronze

cm 61 × 87 h

limited edition 2/9

andro2014—mixed media on aluminum

cm 90 × 9 × 180 h

one-off

| wall sculptures

eve2014—mixed media on aluminum

cm 95 × 5.5 × 180 h

private collection

my lady2014—mixed media on aluminum

cm 110 × 3 × 178 h

private collection

blossom I2016—mixed media on aluminum

cm 95 × 5.5 × 180 h

one-off

blossom II2016—mixed media on aluminum

cm 97 × 5.5 × 180 h

one-off

[ wall sculptures

palms 12016—mixed media black on bronze

cm 38 × 33.5 h

palms 22016—mixed media black on bronze

cm 39 × 31.5 h

[ wall sculptures

leaf 12016—mixed media on aluminum

cm 30 × 40 h

leaf 22016—mixed media on aluminum

cm 30 × 40 h

leaf 32016—mixed media on iron

cm 30 × 35 h

leaf 42016—mixed media on iron

cm 30 × 40 h

[ wall sculptures

leaf 62016—mixed media on iron

cm 20 × 30 h

leaf 52016—mixed media on iron

cm 24 × 30 h

leaf 72016—mixed media on iron

cm 20 × 30 h

[ wall sculptures

trittico2013—mixed media on bronze

cm 60 × 60 each element

private collection

[ wall sculptureschignon 22013—mixed media on bronze

cm 43 × 50 h

one-off

cell 12015—albizia wood

ø cm 11 × 9

cell 112015—albizia wood—maple wood—okumé wood

cm 35 × 11 × 95 h

cell 32015—birch burl wood

cm 40 × 10 × 28 h

cell 82015—ash burl wood

cm 15 × 15 × 58 h

cell 62015—chestnut wood

cm 20 × 9 × 59 h

cell 102015—maple wood—albizia wood

cm 46 × 14 × 85 h

cell 22015—albizia wood

cm 20 × 11 × 22

cell 42015—birch burl wood

cm 38 × 10 × 32 h

cell 52015—albizia wood

cm 36 × 20 × 65 h

cell 72015—chestnut wood

cm 18 × 9 × 61 h

cell 92015—albizia wood

cm 36 × 16 × 78 h

cell 122015—albizia wood—maple wood—okumé wood

cm 32 × 12 × 88 h

cells [ o r i g i n ] | wall sculptures

cells [ o r i g i n ]2015

installation of 7 pieces

lights

multioclefondente 2016

multioclegreen 2016

monoclefondente 2015

monocle green 2015

monocle long green 2015

trioclefondente 2015

trioclegreen 2015

[ lightsmonocle long green2015—green patina brass

s: ø cm 9.5 × 100 h

m: ø cm 10.5 × 110 h

l: ø cm 11.5 × 120 h

monocle green2015—green patina brass

ø cm 9.5 × 50 h

trioclegreen2015—green patina brass

ø cm 23 × 60 h

[ lightsmultioclegreen2016—green patina brass

ø cm 40 × 120 h

trioclefondente2015—‘fondente’ brass

ø cm 23 × 60 h

[ lightsmonoclefondente2015—‘fondente’ brass

ø cm 9.5 × 50 h

multioclefondente2016—‘fondente’ brass

ø cm 40 × 120 h

Mauro Morivia G. Meda 3720141 Milano—Italytel—fax +39.02.70124518info@mauromori.itmauromori.it

graphic designFrancesca Habe

photosGian Paolo BarbieriDaniela BerrutiSilvio WolfStefano Zarpellon

technical supportFabrizio NanniniManuel Randazzo

textMariuccia Casadio

coordinationElisabetta Procchieschi

printed in Italy2016Officine Grafiche StagetSan Zeno Naviglio (Bs)

copyright Mauro Mori © 2016all rights reserved

thanks for your cooperation to:

Simone Borsani

Paul Cafrine

Giancarlo Cerliani

Nilo Culubong

Gabriele Fiammingi

Jeanne Françoise

Remond Françoise

Mario Longoni

Maurizio Maran

Mauro Modica

Keven Morel

Paul Morin

Daniela Parolini

Paolo Torri

Piero Torri

Carlo Valtorta

Ugo Valtorta

Nikolaj Yakimov

Rocco Zucca

Mauro Mori

works

cover: photo by Gian Paolo Barbieri