The collaboration between Incalmi and artist Caterina Roppo, winner of the Special Prize Incalmi at the Arte Laguna Prize contemporary art competition, has resulted in Galateo ancestrale, a textile dialogue combining Caterina Roppo's and Incalmi 's research on the potential of matter.
Galateo ancestrale is a research project born in the course of an experiment on the textiles of
Caterina Roppo's, work Trayma, whose characteristic feature is the intentionally imperfect weave, symbolizing the scars left by emotional trauma. In bringing textiles into dialogue with one of Incalmi's most beloved materials,
copper, a new, entirely unique material was born.
Galateo ancestrale is thus a three-dimensional investigation in which the dynamics and movement of the fabric are crystallized through the use of blow-sprayed metal, a technique already used by Incalmi in the past, but unprecedented in combination with fabric. The union between the fluidity of fabric and the static nature of metal recalls, in its imperfect materiality, the aesthetics of brutalism and that of wabi-sabi.
