Denis Santachiara
(Designer)
Denis Santachiara, an unconventional and outsider designer on the international scene, made his debut with works straddling art and design, exhibited at major events including the 1980 Venice Biennale. He has also worked extensively as a curator of installations and exhibitions, among them a solo exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Lyon and at the Vitra Museum.
Notable exhibitions include “La Neomerce, il design dell’invenzione e dell’estasi artificiale” (1984) at the Triennale di Milano, and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, a manifesto exhibition that became an international reference point for a performative, technopoetic and ironic neo-design.
He has collaborated, and continues to collaborate, with numerous Italian and international companies across the main sectors of industry and design. Among his major awards are the Compasso d’Oro (1986), the Good Design Award (1999), the Design World Award (2000), and in 2010 the Accademia Italiana Award for the Image of Made in Italy in the World.