Two recent exhibitions at the Milan Triennale were sparkling: Copper crossing (16th September to 9th November 2014) dedicated to the history and artefacts of copper, conceived and promoted by Elena Tettamanti, sponsored by the European Copper Institute, organised by Migliore & Servetto, and Communicating Vases by Tarshito (21st October to 30th November, 2014), organised by Silvana Annicchiarico. The first, which proposed a journey, through works of art, design and architecture, technical and scientific applications, photographs and video, in which copper was the main theme, and in the design section there were over 100 objects, some of them not seen before, designed by eminent names.
The second showed large gleaming golden vases created by Tarshito, (Nicola Strippoli) a designer from Bari, who has found his path of wisdom and art in India. In the vase, an archetypal structure intended to contain, Trashito has found the form par excellence and replicates them in different sizes, materials and finishes. The gilded series, created for the exhibition at the Triennale, evidences Tarshito’s ties with Byzantine art and shows his talent in making primordial functional forms sacred and precious.