Fabio Di Salvo

Strategy: deformability - Museo Etnografico "G. Pitre", Palermo 2003 This is a XIX century cotton stocking decorated in geometric pattern. The basis scheme is costantly modified when worn or put back on the drawer Deformability modifies and recreates shapes. Everytime, exterior tensions applied to this cotton pattern change the final image of the item

Strategy: shape, structure, variation - Museo Etnografico "G.Pitre", Palermo 2003 Old item used for textile production with different shapes and linear structures Object whose shape is expressed by its own structure. The structure scheme can change and so the final aesthetics. It's an endless series

Strategy: construction pattern - Museo Etnografico "G.Pitre", Palermo 2003 Traditional baskets made of plaited wicker The plot creates the object. The base pattern can be re-modelled by new directions

Strategy: tenso-structure and space economy - Museo Etnografico "G.Pitre", Palermo 2003 When the space was very tiny there was the habit to hang the cradle above the bed The textile object constantly under tensive strenghts is a dynamic shape. The dynamic object exploit the minimum space

Strategy: enigma and active surface - Museo Etnografico "G.Pitre", Palermo 2003 A strange old brazier made in copper. It could be a UFO as well. Mysterious object. The function is not clear as you look at it. The round surface and all these little holes look like sending sensorial signals: heat, light, perfume, sound

Strategy: sign and assembly chain - Museo Etnografico "G.Pitre", Palermo 2003 This is a copper canteen The simple shape is strictly connected to the use. The decoration is suitable for a serial production since it is reproducible by simple gestures

Strategy: apparent image - Museo Etnografico "G.Pitre", Palermo 2003 Until the mid XX century there was the habit to give pottery vegetable-shaped bottles as a wish Using a methaforic image for redesign the past. The shape of the object is not strictly realted to the use. The vegetable shape only draws the idea of full and capacity, and it is designed with no additional elements

Strategy: mould and communication - Museo Etnografico "G.Pitre", Palermo 2003 Special bread moulded in numerous and different shapes. All these products are exposed in some traditional events The material allows the maximum flexibility of creation. Shape and meaning as elements of communication

Strategy: conceptual creation - Museo Etnografico "G.Pitre", Palermo 2003 These unique XVII century playing cards were part of a group of 52. Today there is nothin left but 8 Here it is a unintentional system with a lot of missing parts. These voids (cells) ca be replaced with the help of the existing elements. It is easy in a way (blank cells), but sometimes you need your own creation (? cells). The players can draw their own cards

Strategy: multiple functions - Museo etnografico "G.Pitre", Palermo 2003 Little XIX-century heater made of copper Many integrated functions and little dimensions are the qualities of this object, along with a strong decoration

Strategy: suitable modules - Museo Etnografico "G.Pitre", Palermo 2003 Leather shoes Serial production of modular leather squares suitable to everyone's body