Alessandro Mendini

1995
From 1995 to 1999 Alessandro Mendini serves as the company’s Art Director. Under his direction, mosaics gain immense visibility. Mendini uses them in architectural projects, in public spaces and in venues with a cultural focus, like the Groninger Museum in Holland, the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, the Casino in Arosa (Switzerland), the Maghetti District in Lugano, and the subway stations in Naples (2001-2004).During his tenure, Alessandro Mendini also puts his signature on Bisazza’s first showroom in Milan (Casa Bisazza) and later in New York. In 1996 he curates the Artinmosaico show in Naples, for which mosaic works and objects by a roster of famous artists were commissioned: Michael Graves, Isao Hosoe, Javier Mariscal and Oscar Tusquets. In 1997 he designs the first pieces for Mobili per Uomo (Furniture for Man), a collection of nine oversized sculptures completely covered with 24 k gold mosaic tiles, that later become part of the FONDAZIONE BISAZZA permanent collection.