Castiglioni Giorgina

Castiglioni Giorgina

With a degree from the Politechnic University of Milan, she worksprofessionally in the sectors of industrial design, furnishings,architectural planning, restructuring of vacant urban sites and the settingup of showrooms. She has gained recognition by taking part in national andinternational competitions in architecture and industrial design. Some of herprojects are displayed in the Museo della Permanente in Milan, the Triennaleof Milan and are permanent parts of the Centre de Création IndustrielParis-Louvre, at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Zurich, at the Museo Kartell diBinasco (Milan) and at the Museo Alessi (Crusinallo). In 2000 she took partin the VIIth Biennale di Architettura in Venice. In 2001, first prize at the”Fashion a Grandesign 2001″. Since 2002, Permanent Design Collection at theMuseo della Triennale with the most products. Since 2004, she exhibits atCannon-Sandretto, Museo Arti Plastiche. She works with the followingcompanies: Bilumen, Ceramica Dolomite (Gruppo American Standard Europe BVBA,bath and kitchen), Sirrah (now iGuzzini), Ceramicas Gala (Burgos), Gufram,Hatria (Gruppo Marazzi), Pedano, R.A.I. Radio Televisione Italiana, Spea(Teramo), Valenti, Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo in Milan. Ritual clothing,prototypes (Ente Fiera di Vicenza), 1989. 1998: FROM THE SPOON TO THE CITYAND BACK AGAIN, a reference, today, to the ideas of Ernesto N. Rogers(National Architecture First Prize, Trevi Flash Art Museum). Single piecemade in a series: jewels. In the publishing sector she works with thesemagazines: TRE, European Building Magazine, Bagno e accessori, StileindustriaADI, IIDD-ADI, Omnibus: Ricerca sul “Design per tutti” 1999. Mapei reality.Bioecological architecture and projects selected at the “Premio AmbienteCarnia”: “A project for the piazza”, “The ecological house” and “H2O: fromthe land to the domestic surrounding”. A study in bio-ecological planningaimed at the recycling of industrial waste that might lead to a refiguring ofthe meaning of the image also through photography. Planning, production andsetting up of travelling exhibitions and exhibitions-in-progress: FROMPLASTIC TO PLASTIC, inaugurated at the Triennale of Milan in 1997; NOTES ONTHE METAMORPHOSIS OF MATERIAL, inaugurated at the 7th InternationalExhibition-Conference Environmental Service Technology, TauExpo, Fiera diMilano, 1999. Also, PORTRAITS: a specific reference to free interdisciplinaryrelations, or rather “Ecologia Umana”, inaugurated in 2002 at the LibreriaInternazionale Hoepli in Milan. THE ART OF PACKAGING, inaugurated in 2003 atthe Bertolt Brecht Cultural Centre. 2005-2006-2007: “13 x 17”, travellingexhibition “padiglioneitalia”: from Venice to Biella, Potenza, Milano,Napoli, Francavilla al Mare, Palermo, Bologna, Roma, Murano…with PhilippeDaverio & Associates. 2007 – “Camera con vista”, Palazzo Reale, Milan. 2007 -DONNA & DESIGN: FROM INDUSTRY TO THE CRAFTSMAN AND BACK, June 2007, MuseoPietro Canonica at Villa Borghese, Rome. 2007 – INTERNATIONAL FIRST PRIZE:ALDO MONDINO. 2007 – “13 x 17” Philippe Daverio: “A spiritual and spiritedexercise on the artistic present”, EDIZIONI RIZZOLI. – D come Design : lamano, la mente, il cuore – Torino Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali,Marzo-Aprile 2008-   Arte Lombarda, Galleria Schubert- Masters of Brera, LiuHaisu Art Museum, Shanghai, Nov.-Dec. 2008.