MARCO VALENTE

DESCRIZIONE PROFILO: Born in Milan in 1964. Artist and designer, at the end of Eighties he attended the European Institute of Design. In the mid-nineties becomes...

Born in Milan in 1964. Artist and designer, at the end of Eighties he attended the European Institute of Design. In the mid-nineties becomes Coordinator of the Department of Product Design Research Centre of IED, developing research projects for new vehicles and products for the mass market, specializing in use innovative materials and technologies and the integration of the first models tridimensional. In these years he collaborated with the brands Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Hyundai and Unilever. In 2000 he opened his own studio, leaving the world of design for the automotive industry and starting to plan for the world of objects. He has worked on: Piazza Effepi, Galbani, Lego Company, Crystal Arnolfo di Cambio, Kundalini, Marinoni, Alessi, Uniliver. In 2001, he began a collaboration that will last four years, for research that will result in the book: Identity of Lego Design product "How to manage the evolution of the market, maintain its aesthetic identity." In addition to the Lego Company's book develops many concepts of toys product. In 2002 he began to produce works of art and created a collection of large format paintings formally related to manufactured products and materials with heterogeneous technologies. The research for new formal languages, related to an ongoing trial and the mix of old and new technologies determine the identity of his work. "Marco Valente is a designer, a theorist and an artist, a trio that makes him interested in the idea of contamination, understood as the possibility of a dialogue between the conceptual systems of different disciplines through an exchange, testing the various means by which they occur. " Emanuela Genesio Art Critic Besides being a designer he is always busy working with various universities and training institutions: teacher at IED in Milan, professor at the Design Faculty of Milan Polytechnic and Master in Strategic Design of POLI design, teacher at the Master in Interaction Design and Car Design at Domus Academy.