ET TU, ETTORE

“ET TU, ETTORE” is the twelfth selling exhibition at Galerie56, and marks its first formal collaboration with Friedman Benda, a gallery spanning five continents and four generations representing a roaster of seminal designers and historically significant estates. 

The exhibition is an intimate, monographic examination of the groundbreaking Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007). Galerie56 founder Lee F. Mindel, FAIA, offers an architect’s analysis of another architect’s creative output. The works to be featured range in medium and time period, acting as a survey of Sottsass’ approach to design. This includes rarely seen examples of his early ceramic prototypes made in the 1960s from Sottsass’ own personal collection, one of his iconic totems, and works from his Geology series produced in the early 2000s. The latter ceramic works in particular possess a potent kinship to the architecture of Galerie56 itself.