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HoperAperta: Close-up

Close-up presented by HoperAperta at the Museo Mangini Bonomi, an exhibition that explored the temporal, symbolic, and formal value of “image-objects”—between appearance and essence.
A collection of unique art and design works unfolded in the museum courtyard as a poetic system of images and memories, where painting, photography, sculpture, design, and architecture merged through processes of transformation and métissage. Forms moved continuously from function to image, and from memory to invention, generating a layered narrative in which past, present, and future coexisted. Each object carried its own temporal sequence, activated by poetic imagination and spatial movement.
Works by Maurizio Barberis, Armando Bruno & Alberto Torres, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Alfonso Femia AF*Design, Duccio Grassi, Steve Piccolo, Carmelo Zappulla (External Reference)

HoperAperta: Close-up
Presented at Mangini Bonomi Museum in Via del Vecchio Politecnico 3, Milan



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5VIE Design Week – QoT: Qualia of Things
20–26 April 2026