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Diego Fortunato

Bort	12 May 1961 (age 52) Buenos Aires, Argentina Spouse	Single Nationality	Argentinian Field	Fine art & design Training	in life Patrons	Nicola Togneri

Diego Fortunato (born 12 May 1961) is an Artist & Industrial Designer, known mainly for his furniture designs that have been on the market for almost 20 years. He likes to describe himself as “A feral creature, whose magical lineage goes back to the secret union of Snow White and The Dragon, and after his industrial design degree was auctioned off for 7€, he lives happily ever after.”

http://www.diegofortunato.com

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/diego-fortunato/18/7a0/3ab

Early life

Diego Fortunato was born in Buenos Aires to a family of scientists. He was briefly educated at La Salle institute from where he was expelled at the age of 14. The priests lied about something “terrible” they say he did, which needless to say, he did not. Having neither studied at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism nor at the National Fine Arts School, he escaped from Argentina and started living in Barcelona, Spain.

So called Career

At his first exhibition in 1991 at Ruth Benzacar gallery in Buenos Aires, the press described his creations as “irrationals”. (image pending to upload) He draw shortly after a silhouette, thinking of nothing in particular, and this draw became 14 years later his bestseller mass production product: “Jazz Lamp” produced by Vibia.

http://www.vibia.com

http://www.vibia.com/en/lamps/design_by/id/41/diego_fortunato.html

His 2nd exhibition at Dialogica (New York, 1992) was about his ceramics, he applied the principle of give form to the ceramic only by squeezing it with the hands, he discovered many years later that it reminds the ancient Japanese ceramics from 3000 BC.

(image pending to upload): Diego Fortunato goblet 1991 circa (image pending to upload): Earthenware flame pot. Japan, c. 3000 BC. (Middle Jōmon period) Nagaoka Municipal Science Museum, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.

His first mass production product, Barbara collection by Carlos Jané 1995 (image pending to upload)

He started a rocket so called career with his first designs in the 90’s being cuddled by the media and the companies who were producing them.

“Stone-Woll” rug collection 1998

http://www.nanimarquina.com/en/designers/fortunato

http://www.nanimarquina.com

This collection in particular, it’s a non-design, he took small stones from the beach and therefore use the exact shape created by nature to give birth to mass production rugs. They were never have been designed or drew by human hands. He photocopied the stones and enhanced them till they reached the size he wanted.(image pending to upload)

Urban furniture "SIT" by Escofet

http://www.escofet.com

http://www.escofet.com/pages/productos/ficha_productos.aspx?IdP=42

http://www.escofet.com/pages/productos/ficha_productos.aspx?IdP=186

He introduce a rather mind blowing concept on his first collection for Ycami, which belonged to the art field rather than mass production: Ycami Italia 2004: seX-Fiction sofa collection: “This is a utopian space whose inhabitants cross all known borders between subject and object. Objects abandon their stupid passivity, reproducing themselves through sexual intercourse, and liberate human beings of the tyranny imposed by designers and their patrons.”

http://www.designbuzz.com/sex-fiction-tantalizing-sofa-bed-solution/

http://www.mnavigator.ru/catalog/mebel/mjagkaja_mebel/prochee/sex_fiction/

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NhX_SfMy5kgC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=YCAMI+SEX+FICTION&source=bl&ots=bnE6R9qM9Q&sig=yaXnfR9peVTWrElho-9UZ2KdcHM&hl=es&sa=X&ei=RIKoUrSOCYiw7Abd8YDACQ&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=YCAMI%20SEX%20FICTION&f=false

http://www.eroomservice.com/blog/2010/02/modern-furniture-with-a-sexy-twist/

A lamp made with toilet paper in his Barcelona flat at the cover of The World of Interiors. (a statement about “design”?) (image pending to upload)

Personal life

Disaster.

Art Work

His initiation into the field of art came about in an unexpected way: He was walking in St. Moritz, saw a small stone and decided to change its position by about two inches. A revelation came to mind, “I’ve transformed the landscape”. He’s been a conceptual artist ever since.