The Mitterrand Gallery Brings Together Works by Sottsass and Warhol in a Special Exhibition
The Mitterrand | St-Honoré gallery presents Centro Fly: Ettore Sottsass & Andy Warhol, an exhibition highlighting the dialogue between art and design in the mid-1960s. In the context of Italy’s economic miracle, Ettore Sottsass developed for Poltronova a series of now-iconic pieces of furniture. Brought together under the name of Mobili Fly, these objects were placed in dialogue with images drawn from popular culture and Pop Art, underscoring the gradual dissolution of boundaries between disciplines.
This event is intended to echo the spirit of the original Mobili Fly exhibition, held at the Centro Fly in Milan in February 1966. Designed by Gae Aulenti on January 31st, 1966, the Centro Fly was the very first European concept store, and during its inauguration, it was buzzing with elegance: precise volumes, fluid circulation, modernity without nostalgia. Stepping through the door of the Mitterrand Gallery, we are thrown back 60 years in time. This new Parisian show features some of the original pieces from Ettore Sottsass’s Mobili per Poltronova exhibition presented that evening at the Centro Fly. The guests are on the walls, as Andy Warhol’s Social Portraits: they are participating in their own way in the opening.
At the opening, we met Ivan Mietton, Charles Zana, Aure Atika, Adèle Godet, Mathilde Favier, Bernadette Le Jeune, and Kelta Stephensen, among others.
Photos: Michael Huard
