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MICHAEL ANASTASSIADES | CHEERFULLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE
8 September 2021 - 6 January 2022 Opening reception: Wednesday 8 September 2021
Fondazione ICA Milano announces the exhibition "Cheerfully Optimistic About the Future", the first solo show in Italy dedicated to Michael Anastassiades (Cyprus, 1967). The London-based designer opened his studio in 1994. His practice explores the contemporary notions of culture and aesthetic thought a combination of disciplines such as product design, interior design and environmental design, often transcending the distinctions between the different fields of creativity.
The ideation of the show, curated by Alberto Salvadori and developed by Anastassiades and his studio during the last year, has been accompanied by the desire to build a project characterized from the strong “hand – made” feature for the realization of the works, involving in first person the artist and his collaborators.