Andrea Petrachi turns
old school gadget into retro/futuristic android figures, bizarre
characters and insects, born from the chaos of techno detritus.
All
the design aspects of the original products ( old cameras, hardware,
calculators, VTR, electric razors ) are absorbed into unique articulated
sculptures, with an overabundance of personality that surpass their
everyday materials.
Andrea
describe his work as a celebration of the out-of-control desire to buy
more and more things, a commentary to the planned obsolescence of
products ( and the vicious cycle of buying, breaking, and trashing )
which stand at the base of a mass production society.
Interested
in forms that combines mechanical and organic parts, most of his pieces
explores the boundaries between technology and anatomy, a dystopian
vision inspired by diverse sources such as underground subculture,
cyberpunk, anime, sci-fi and videogames.
Rave
reviews of his work were duly blogged and featured in magazine like
Wired, M/I/S/C, Surface, Daily Thelegraph, This Is Colossal, Beautiful
Decay and Design You Trust.
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