Vanni Visum Capsule Assortment | The Optical Journal

Vanni “Visum” is a group of sun shades that mixes an inventive element with the design’s performance, an encounter between artwork’s capability of “seeing past”, and an adjunct created to guard us from the solar; whereas nonetheless sustaining their shielding goal, because of the inventive nature of the gathering these glasses additionally open new and surprising sceneries.

Teresa Giannico is the Italian artist who was chosen by a multisectoral jury at Artissima 2022 to discover the potential of fusion between the brilliance of up to date artwork and eyewear design, alongside VANNI Glasses. Whereas the duty would possibly seem easy, it took Teresa and VANNI’s type workplace over six months of intensive trade and dialogue to develop the right assortment: all through the method, the artist took on the problem of turning into a designer whereas breaking freed from design code’s constraints, whereas the VANNI designer was pushed to speak in confidence to new concepts and options that didn’t essentially coincide with common mission schemas.

Following the road of her inventive follow, for this mission Teresa attracts from digital pictures archives, digging into the historical past of eyewear: “I’m at all times impressed by late 1800’s eyewear, by the meticulous work of artisanal specialists, that by no means ceases to fascinate me”: a reference to skinny, small metallic frames, which we as we speak have traces of because of work relationship again to the period. Glasses that had been as soon as a privilege for the few, with solar lenses that had been constituted of tinted glass.

It’s from this concept that VANNI’s Fashion crew and Teresa labored on two fashions of eyewear that had been rooted in historical past, however that would nonetheless look modern, making “yesteryear’s” type extra fashionable.

The results of this research is a group composed of two pairs of restricted version sun shades, by the identify “Visum”. The glasses are made with precision milled metallic, molded into authentic shapes, in each gold and rose gold shades, complimented with inexperienced or plum lenses. The body’s bridge and finish items are adorned with a fragile and fashionable engraving. An surprising and distinctive element lays throughout the aspect wings on the temples: they block one’s lateral view in favor of a small inscription with the phrases “vedere oltre” (to see past), seen solely to the wearer. A reversal and a contradiction in perspective: the aspect protect blocks the viewer’s imaginative and prescient, but – as all artworks do – it invitations them to bypass their limits, whether or not they be visible or psychological, so as to see what’s “past”.

As mentioned by Teresa: “Visum is a mission that displays on the act of seeing as a social act. Whereas it’s true that observing is firstly a person act, it is usually true that the impressions that come from it assist form a extra collective notion of the world itself. In an period during which our picture influenced society coexists with new types of propaganda, the 2 fashions of sun-glasses we’ve got designed intention to be an intimate object that brings our focus again to the significance of sight itself.”

The “Visum” assortment is fully designed and produced in Italy, in a limited-edition sequence of solely 100 pairs per mannequin.

VANNI #ARTISTROOM PRIZE

Elisa Alberti is the winner of the third version of the VANNI #artistroom Prize. The artist is represented by Krobath Gallery in Vienna. The prize has been assigned by a global jury composed of: Lucia Aspesi, curator, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milano; Giuseppe Fantasia, journalist, Roma; Annalia Venezia, journalist, Milano, with the next remarks: “For her skill to provide works that includes easy geometric types and comfortable monochrome surfaces. For her vocabulary is product of phrases with a number of meanings, the place the colours emerge on surfaces that fill areas during which the experimental and the non-experimental coexist and set off feelings. Her acrylic portray, with summary and minimalist references, creates a world that’s ours, during which all viewers can acknowledge themselves in their very own method.”

Alessandra Girardi, promoter of the prize, recounts: “The VANNI #artistroom prize at Artissima was born with the intention of exploring the potential mixtures between the genius of up to date artwork and eyewear design, awarding the successful artist with each a financial prize and the chance to encourage a capsule assortment of auteur eyewear. It’s an event for us to carry new stimuli into the eyewear sector, letting creativity circulation with a course of that’s extra typical of artwork, however which we then carry into the economic framework of design, to make it replicable. We’ve been keeping track of the artwork world for over 15 years, with curiosity and curiosity: since 2019 VANNI accomplished its two capsule collections of artist eyewear: “Concrete” by Christian Chironi, and “I Breath Poetry” by Catalin Pislaru.”

VANNI’s signature contact of “Made in Italy, for positive” characterizes the frames of the latest assortment, animating a present, modern Dolce Vita primarily based on stable values and objects made to final. VANNI Eyewear defines and expresses the distinctive type of its wearers, for any event.