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The Brazilian brothers Fernando and Humberto Campana design through a fiercely regional, political, and socioeconomic filter, fueled by an innate sense of irreverence tempered by a gentle humility and an appreciation of the poetic. Often combining found or mass-produced objects such as scraps of wood, children’s stuffed animals, and discarded fabric off-cuts with advanced industrialized technologies, their spirited work embodies a highly personal commentary on issues of waste, resourcefulness, poverty, and contemporary ideas of perfection, as well as on the debate over craft vs. production, globalization vs. nationalism, art vs. design, and historicism vs. the contemporary. Their work transforms the most modest of materials into objects that celebrate (joyously!) the discarded and mundane, yet remain elegant provocations instilled, always, with the spirit of contemporary Brazil. |
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