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2016 LE BANQUET GAULOIS

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LE BANQUET GAULOIS

25th Biennale Interieur, Kortrijk (Belgium), 2016

 

LE BANQUET GAULOIS is a collective meal with a ritual character. It’s the space for celebration, for ceremony, for gathering. A space where food and drinks become an infrastructure for hospitality and gift. Rather than a hierar- chic and educated convivium, Le Banquet Gaulois proposes a wild and democratic feast, celebrating the communal value of eating together.

 

LE BANQUET GAULOIS is a large empty field populated by floating objects, surrounded by a border. The border is the table for the banquet’s guests. It marks the edge of the clearing inside the forest of the biennale exhibitors. Along the border, visual contact and physical proximity play a crucial role among the guests. At the same time, everybody is encouraged to participate to the events taking place in the inner area. Everything is simultaneously exhibited here: the products as well as their storage, their conserva- tion, and the actions needed for their preparation and service.

 

LE BANQUET GAULOIS is made of simple objects. Each object has its own recognizable form and a suggested function. Encircled by a long and narrow TABLE there are a ZIGGURAT (bottle rack), a BANCO (bar counter), a STAIRCASE (display and storage), and a TRIANGLE (display and storage). Every object is made with a simple plywood structure covered with a laminated print that disguise them with a different material. Every object moves on wheels. The TABLE and the LIGHT and SOUND system are supported by a painted metallic structure. Standard technical elements such as oven, fridge, dishwasher and shelves, will flank the designed ones.

 

LE BANQUET GAULOIS is a place for encounter and performance. The core of the banquet is also a theatrical scene. The objects that define this space are constantly re-arranged according to the specific needs, and with the desire to produce an ever changing variety of possible programs: from a cooking lesson to a public talk, from an acoustic performance to an opening dinner.

 

in collaboration with Jean-Benoît Vétillard

client: Biennale Interieur

surface: 110 sqm

team: Matteo Ghidoni, Jean-Benoît Vétillard, Louis Mounis, Enrico Venturini

food project: Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe)

photos: Fabrizio Vatieri, Delfino Sisto Legnani

partners: Villa Belleville, Corègie-Expo, Abet Laminati

 

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Salottobuono

Corso Sempione, 33
20145 Milano, I
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Salottobuono is an architectural office based in Milan, directed by Matteo Ghidoni.

 

The studio’s work ranges from urban design to architecture, from temporary installations to exhibition design. Salottobuono is also constantly engaged in research, publishing and teaching activities. Always active in the international arena, the studio is currently in charge of developing public space and landscape redevelopment projects on behalf of several Italian administrations. Salottobuono relies on the collaboration of a network of specialists for the development of all phases of the project in its structural, plant engineering, economic and site management aspects. It also collaborates with consultants on landscape and environmental sustainability issues.

 

Matteo Ghidoni obtained his Master Degree in architecture at IUAV Faculty of Architecture in Venice in 2002. He was a founding partner of the research agency Multiplicity from 2002 to 2006. His work with Multiplicity was exhibited at Kunstwerke in Berlin (2003), the Venice Biennale (2003), the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris (2003), the ZKM in Karlsruhe (2004) and the Beijing Biennial (2004).

 

Ghidoni founded the architectural office Salottobuono in 2007. Salottobuono has served as editor of the Instructions and Manuals section of Abitare magazine
(2007-10) and as creative director of Domus magazine (2011, 2012). The office has taken part in the Venice Biennale (2008, 2012, 2014), and designed the Italian Pavilion in 2010. Salottobuono published the Manual of Decolonization (2010) and Fundamental Acts (2016).

 

Matteo Ghidoni is currently Visiting Lecturer at the MIT Department of Architecture and Adjunct Professor at Politecnico in Milan. He taught design studios at the Faculty of Architecture in Genova, at IUAV Faculty of Architecture in Venice, the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotà. He has given guest lectures at several schools and institutions including the Berlage Institute, Berkeley, TU Wien, Vlaams Architectuurinstituut in Antwerp, Columbia University and USoA Miami. He has been studio leader at the Venice Studio organized by the Melbourne School of Architecture and at the Porto Academy hosted at FAUP.

 

In 2014 he was invited by Rem Koolhaas, director of the Venice Biennale, to participate in the Monditalia section with the research project Ground Floor Crisis. Among the recent projects designed and built by Ghidoni there are the winning proposal for a temporary restaurant for the 25th Biennale Interieur in Kortrjik, Belgium (2016), the pavilion for the Mèxtropoli Festival in Mexico City (2017), the e-flux pavilion for the Milano ArchWeek (2018), the new Urban Center for the city of Milan (2019) and the new addition to the Venice Casino in Ca’ Noghera (2020). His project for the market square of Sant’Agostino (Ferrara), designed in collaboration with Enrico Dusi and completed in 2020, has been awarded the prestigious Gubbio Prize as the best national intervention on an area of historical interest.

 

Since 2010, Ghidoni has been co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of San Rocco, an independent international publication about architecture. The editors of San Rocco were received the Icon Award in 2012 as the best emerging architecture practice. In 2012 and 2013, the magazine was awarded two grants from the Graham Foundation.