2021 Edition

SKIN was conceived from the dream of Alessandro Ciffo, who has been giving new life to silicone for over 20 years, deconstructing and decontextualizing its essence to sew a new skin on architectural objects. The self-training of the artist in applied arts developed from a clear and disruptive vision which encompasses structural engineering in the artistic endeavour thanks to the collaboration with Sargomma, a stable presence in constant evolution on the manufacturing scene in Turin.  SKIN was born from the contrast between art and science, beauty and performance, warmth and detachment. In fact, it plays on the elasticity and durability of silicone to produce a material with a heretofore unseen use and appearance, a membrane that breaks with the boundaries of tradition and flows into an innovative technique. The result is a skin that is perfectly sewn onto the object and that becomes an integral part of it, and of the context in which it is placed, giving it life with an almost erotic touch. SKIN is Sight and Touch, an overwhelming and disarming sensation that creates an unusual space, almost alien but intimately human, within which people become the protagonists of the installation, shaping its context. The locations SKIN addresses are alive and constantly changing natural settings in harmony with man, urban social  spaces, and artistic and cultural environments. The artist sets out to create a meeting point through contrast, an oxymoron and a synaesthesia in which man, art, culture and society can interact.  SKIN is in its prototypal phase, where the artist Alessandro Ciffo is making the silicone slabs by creating the texture and casting the silicone layers. The slabs will be coupled with other structural materials described underneath and water-jet cut in Sargomma to perfectly fit the architecture that it is meant to cover.