Santachiara Denis

Santachiara Denis

He began its activity in 1980 and is immediately attracted by the poetic-linguistic potentialities of the artificial world and new technologies and by the aesthetic processes that can result in the industrial context.
He creates works on the borderline between art and design, and is exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Documenta 8 in Kassel, the Triennale in Milan and the Quadrennial in Rome.
He has organized numerous exhibitions, notably “La Neomerce” (1984) at the Milan Triennale and the Pompidou Center in Paris and “I Segni dell’Habitat” (1986) presented at the Grand Palais and the Berlage Museum in Amsterdam. .
He also directed the exhibition “New Persona” for the Florence Biennale, between 1996 and 1997.
As an architect and interior designer, he designed – between 1988 and 1992 – the interior layout of the Chartreuse d’Avignon for the French Ministry of Culture and the Museum of Magic in Blois.
In 1993, he signed arrangements for the Toyama Square in Japan and in 1994-1995 the interior layout of the Art’otel Dresden.
As a product designer, he has collaborated and collaborates with leading design companies internationally. For FontanaArte, he designed the Aurea suspension in 2005.
He has received numerous awards and decorations, including the Compasso d’Oro (1986), the Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design (1999) and Design World (2000).