Denis Santachiara

Denis Santachiara launched his career in 1980 and was instantly attracted to the poetic-linguistic potential of the artificial world and new technology, and by the aesthetic processes that they could generate in an industrial context. He has produced works that were borderline art / design, exhibited at the Venice Biennale, at documenta 8 in Kassel, at the Milan Triennale and the Rome Quadriennale. He has curated numerous exhibitions, including La Neomerce (1984) at the Milan Triennale and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and I Segni dell'Habitat (1986) presented at the Grand Palais in Paris and at the Berlage Museum in Amsterdam. He also designed the layout of the exhibition New Persona for the Florence Biennale in 1996-97. As an architect and interior designer from 1988 to 1992, he designed the interiors of the Charterhouse in Avignon for the French Ministry of Culture and the Museum of Magic in Blois. In 1993, he designed the furnishings for the square of Toyama, Japan and in 1994-95 the interiors of the Art’otel in Dresden. As a product designer, he has worked with famous international design companies. For FontanaArte, he designed the Aurea hanging lamp in 2005. He has received numerous awards and prizes for decoration, including the Compasso d’Oro (1986), the Good Design award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design (1999) and the Design World award (2000).