Le Dictateur Studio, hosted by Massimo De Carlo, presented A house is not a home, an installation by Federico Pepe. The space at Via Catalani 29 became a platform for exploring the house as a space of identity, belonging and freedom of expression.
Federico Pepe's alphabet of signs, which shift from painterly to sculptural and enter as design elements of lights, beds, seats, and objects, transformed the exhibition space into an immersive experience.
It will be possible to reconstruct a complex practice where everything starts from the mark traced on paper and from the continuity of that mark that becomes a drawing and manifests itself and materializes as a tubular structure: when the tube that is at the base of object design is black, we see it in its purest form, and more explicitly close to the mark.
The clash between contrasting materials plays a fundamental role.
The barriers, also made up of the rigidity of steel tubes, can be broken by an intervention of Viennese straw or by an inlay, or they can lose their rhythm by replacing the steel tubes with neon tubes or turned elements.
A house is not a home is when the obsession, never an end in itself, evolves into a reflection on the role of the house as a manifestation of identity radicalness.
Federico Pepe was born in Omegna in 1976. He lives and works in Milan. He is a unique figure in the Italian cultural and artistic landscape, where he moves with agility and extreme aesthetic coherence among various art forms.
In 2006, he founded Le Dictateur, an editorial project and independent exhibition space in Milan, for which he serves as editorial and artistic director, collaborating with artists such as Micol Assael, Jacopo Benassi, Sophie Calle, Maurizio Cattelan, Paola Pivi, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Patricia Urquiola, Nico Vascellari and Luca Vitone, among others.
In 2018, Le Dictateur Studio was born, of which he is the founder and CEO, working on projects for brands such as Prada, Prada Beauty, Lamborghini, Fincantieri, and Gruppo Campari.
He has collaborated as a designer with various brands such as Editions Milano, CC-Tapis, Frette, and Wall&Decò. With the "Araldica" collection designed for CEDIT Ceramiche d'Italia, he won the Good Design Awards presented by the Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design.