illy Art Collection 2019 Venice Art Biennale
THE COLLECTION
THE ARTISTS
Cameron Jamie
Taking note of the details that make your days rich in meaning: this is what Cameron Jamie does. He rediscovers the pleasure of reading through his notebooks while sipping a coffee, in a moment where all the elements bind together and seem to assume a new, creative sense. There is indeed an invisible thread that unites the words and drawings, showing us the beauty of the simplest things, like a flower, for example: an element that brightens.
AD Minoliti
AD Minoliti plays with shapes and colours, inspired by the work of the Memphis group and their playful use of geometry. The designs that decorate her cup are simple, and invite us to imagine different characters and stories each time, depending on the point of view of the observer. This might start from a cat or a monster, which are both key elements in the artist’s work.
Slavs & Tatars
For the illy Art Collection, Slavs and Tatars present The Dark One, a homage to the geographic origins of coffee through a phonetic game. Three letters from three different alphabets almost magically reproduce the same guttural sound: “qaf”, the first letter of the original word for coffee in East Africa and the Arabian peninsula. The letters alternate to celebrate language and sensuality in a design that brings together geopolitics, food, & art.
Ulrike Müller
Often, objects destined for different functions or with different aesthetics end up mingling together, generating surprising effects. We see this in Ulrike Müller’s plates, which are often found at flea markets and grouped together, even though they are from different collections. This is how the decoration for the new cup was created, combining digital and hand-drawn elements, adapting them to each other.
