Those who have followed Giorgio Casu [2]in his events in New York city for the last 7 years know how much care and diversity can be found. From the white marble stunning lobby at Atelier on 42nd Street that followed Milton Glaser exhibit in 2010 to the live performance in 2011 at Gramercy Park triplex for Imaf festival and Corcoran group. The collaboration with other performers and artists are endless and considering that he just in his late thirties there is much more to expect.
WHERE
This time the venue is an elegant two floors space of the renewed Hueb [3] jewelry in the scenario of the upper east side that doesn’t need much introduction, it’s surrounded by the most important designers stores and brand facing the corner of 63th Street in the magic and unique vibe of Madison Avenue.
The show is displayed in 2 different settings: the first floor is a stunning showroom with the Hueb fine jewelry that it will be decorated with white orchids and the presentation on windows of Giorgio Casu new collection of scarves for the new brand Mozina Kakkar which for the artist is designing a collection on Indian sari. mozinakakkar.com [4].
The first floor will be hosting the catering for the event. The second floor will be displayed as the Artist atelier, an important show of design objects and paintings , many of which , the artist announce, will be presented “ raw” on the wall as they were still being painted .
There will be the presentation of the Butterfly guitar which has being design by the artist 2 years ago for his brand and the ceramics eggs realized for the artist by Cera Sarda.
The Butterfly Guitar
Born to offer the best quality sound performance on an unprecedented design, The Butterfly is now a custom made electric guitar produced by Argoove and designed by Italian New York based artist Giorgio Casu.
Using the best materials and unifying the rare and precious line that only an 100% hand made can deliver, the project has been created with the handcraft custom made ability of master italian luthier Andrea Orru' .
The two top range pickups offer to the players an incredible selection of acoustic and hybrid acoustic/electric sounds with a special three-position mini-toggle switch inserted on the top left of the guitar and a 2 knobs with a Push/Pull button in the Volume and Tone control.
Other features include the Butterfly's carved maple top and mahogany back and a one-piece mahogany neck with a long neck tenon. The Left of Center Signature model comes in a black body with a white pick- guard, and a second version using the opposite colors, an outstanding elegant white creature with black fine lines in his unique design.
Each guitar comes with the distinguish jorghe's design in the back to give even more authenticity, originality and prestige to this unparalleled sculpture like artist edition.
Every piece is custom made for you, it will be numbered as a limited edition series of 333 total pieces and it will be delivered with the name of the owner engraved in the back of the fretboard.
Elephant Eggs
The Elephant Eggs is an Unique project created thanks to the collaboration of Giorgio Casu, Argoove and CeraSarda in 2012 . The project aim to the promotion and production of high quality ceramic and art product, entirely hand made crafted by Cerasarda artist Thierri Mourot and and design by New York Based artist Giorgio Casu. Each piece is therefore unique; the pieces created so far are included in a larger production of unicolor edition a multicolor limited edition series.
Source URL: http://iitaly.org/magazine/events/reports/article/one-perfect-darkness-solo-show-giorgio-casu
Links
[1] http://iitaly.org/files/giorgiocasuheuboneperfecrdarkness1437076749jpeg
[2] http://giorgiocasu.com
[3] http://www.hueb.com
[4] http://mozinakakkar.com