Design is a field in which heterogeneous realities, often very far apart from each other, can find expression. The word itself identifies a broad overall container (a main folder) which contains other categories of membership: product design, fashion design, graphic design, web design, sound design- to name a few. However, the casein which these limited sets remain pure convention, instead to define an exact match, are getting more and more numerous.
Some objects possess an expressive force, an intrinsic aesthetic value - due to the material they are made of, and an extrinsic one - due to the designed form, which defies categorization, besides the will to force them within a membership.
This occurs because of the versatility permeating them (simultaneous presence in more folders), or because of the absence of a definition similar to what they describe (untitled folder), or because those objects interpret the category they belong to without binding to currents and trends, developing an autonomous discourse (outsider).
The aim of the exhibition THE WHITE DRAKE, is just to explore a few different design expressions, figuring to take a free flight trough and out those folders, to discover different ways to dwell, to hold, to wear and to identify an aesthetic sense, sometimes immediate, sometime more complex, transcending the duties related to the relationship between form and function.
We imagined it was a dragon (we have chosed the archaic word DRAKE to name it) to fly this flight: mythological figure of the Far East, benevolent giver of life, but also loud and disruptive, which in China at the time of the Han Dynasty