Item Code: DILCOUONDA
Brand Name: Dilmos
Item Description: ONDA CHAIS-LONGUE CM 50 X 210 H 75
Product Specification: Long chair in a hand decorated polyurathane foam
Origin: ITALY
Designer: Gianni Osgnach
Designer’s Profile: Born in San Leonardo dei Friuli (Udine) in 1968 he then moved to Novara and Milan where he worked in the field of semi-precious and precious stones. For some years now he has been living in Ceresa di Virgilio, in the province of Mantua. With the personal exhibitions at the Galleria Avanguardia 2 in Milan and the Artespiga and the participation in ART 9â78 in Basle, from 1980 to 1985 his works have been in various collective exhibition and art fairs in Basel, Bilboa, and at Bariâs Expo Arte. Osgnach approached painting after a workshop apprenticeship during which he worked with precious stones, studied and investigated the morphology of the stones, falling under the spell of the veins and the growth of the schists and coming to terms with the natural transformations and sediments from the bowels of the earth.
The principle of constructive order found in his works, derived from Dutch neo-plasticism, replies to the need to re-order the materials which were manipulated by the artist who then began to integrate them into dژcor items for his own home. Osgnach likes to take the material with its ancient history which then belongs to mankind, and remodel it in the circle of contemporaneousness, supporting his own sensitivity, according to a methodological and factual rigour. Osgnachâs art could be described as organic art in the sense that it is made by man for man and springs chiefly from vital supports of which he respects the secret biology.
In 1986 his works went on display in the Milanese Zeus Arte design exhibition “For an Imprudent Image.” This same exhibition was repeated the following year in the Casa Ruini in Reggio Emilia and in the Museum of Modern Art of the Alto Mantovano in Gazoldo degli Ippoliti. In 1987 he took part in”Green Neorom” in the Ezio Francesco Grisanti Centre and in the installations in the park in Reggio Emilia on the theme “Door to Door.” In 1988 Osgnach was invited by Sergio Calatrani and Renata Casarin to take part in the “The Word ِ The Object. Design Trends” exhibition organised by the Einaudi Cultural Centre in Mantua, and in the same year his work was also in the Galleria Rocca 6 in Turin with the “Design in Course N، 3″ exhibition. The artists also took part in performance events which found his initial tracings now on large canvases and his Plexiglas mobiles on display in his birthplace, set among the woods and pathways of Cividale dei Friuli in the exhibition “Videli, bili, deliti,” which is to say seeing, being and doing, a title which is a poetic declaration.
He repeated this experience in 1994 SantâAnastasio di Cessalto (Treviso) and at Pelin & Pele when he states that what is needed is a “to be a means that captures something from that which is all, universal, and attempts to crystallise it. The objects he creates exist between structural rigour, like the decomposed chair, and organic vitality like the crest of the wave chaise longue, the Isonzo and Anemone lamp and the environmental reconstruction table, all of which are produced by Dilmes. In Osgnachâs design we find all the elements he started out from, except that the initial tracings have taken on a different consistency and, from objects to be admired have become objects to be used; the wooden sculptures have become tables and stools in the name of a non-contemplative art. These are elements to be touched, pleasant and functional objects to be used to make the environment in which we live more aesthetic.
