tgm-Vortrag (Omar Vulpinari): FABRICA: a hybrid experience of education, research and practice July 29, 2008

FABRICA, Benetton’s ­communication center, offers young international creatives from all fields an alternative opportunity of cultural expression and learning. Since 1998, Vulpinari has been creative director of Visual ­Communication at FABRICA, which was founded in 1994 by Luciano Benetton and Oliviero Toscani. Here, he has directed projects for United Nations, International Council of Nurses, Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders, United Colors of Benetton, CocaCola, Istituto Luce, Vespa, Porsche, The New Yorker Magazine and much more. FABRICA’s visual communication work under his direction has been featured by major international press and dedicated exhibitions at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, the National Museum of Arts and Traditions in Rome, the Vivid Gallery in Rotterdam, the GGG in Tokyo, the DDD in Osaka, the ZeroOne Design Center in Seoul. In the exhibition “FABRICA: Les Yeux Ouverts” it was featured at the Centre Pompidou in 2006, at La Triennale di Milano and the Shanghai Art Museum in 2007, at the Shiodomeitalia Creative Center of Tokyo in 2008.

Omar Vulpinari will feature the institution’s philosophy and most important past and present projects.

This lecture will be hold in english.

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