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21/07/2006
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Women in Marble
A survey into the relationships between marble and women in metaphoric, professional and entrepreneurial terms
Language itself is a faithful, summary mirror of social imagination, through sayings such as “hard as stone” to define a loveless heart, “smooth as marble” to describe a woman's soft skin and “statuary” for imposing femininity.
While stone brings to mind the idea of compactness and stiffness, and "monolithic" is often the ironic attribute of the male character, the irregular, sinuous veins of marble seem to solidify the changeable waves of water, the classic female "element".
Stone materials are used in architecture and interior design particularly in cladding and exterior paving, exploiting the refined sensuality of marble for "noble" details, decorations and interiors, further emphasising the dichotomy confirmed by history, tradition and established applications, that frequently take advantage of the extraordinary, variegated and “polyphonic” colours of marble for effects resembling fabrics and brocade.
In order to survey the relationship between marble and the female world in metaphoric, professional and entrepreneurial terms, Marmomacc 2006 will host a special convention involving three well-known female figures in the world of architecture, fashion and journalism.
Architecture will be represented by Italian-Spanish designer Benedetta Miralles Tagliabue, owner of EMBT Studio - one of the leading realities in the international avant-garde - with recent masterpieces published in major magazines all over the world such as the Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona and the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.
The Parliament building sees innovative use of stone in exteriors that blend, by no coincidence, with the marble characterising and ennobling the interiors - so much so that the project took the prestigious Stirling Prize 2005 by RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects).
Women and Marble will also be an occasion for giving voice and visibility to a new entrepreneurial reality - again, entirely female.
Over the last twenty years or so, the Women of Wine Association has promoted female involvement in this sector; in this context, a similar initiative will be dedicated to the many women variously involved in the use, processing and production of natural, sophisticated, luxurious and precious marbles and natural stone.
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(Fuente de información: Verona Fiere)
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