Gamper and Niedermair's Pixelated Monochromes for Dedar's 40th

Designer Martino Gamper and artist Brigitte Niedermair have created a series of printed fabric panels for Italian textile company Dedar, founded in 1976. The project originated from a chance moment during a car ride to Dedar's headquarters in Como for the brand's 40th anniversary celebrations. While brainstorming, poor Wi-Fi connectivity caused images to load slowly on their smartphones, revealing fragmented, pixelated screens. This inspired them to capture those defective screenshots—where masterpieces by Picasso, Klein, Giotto, Matisse, and van Gogh become abstract data—and translate them into textile panels. The panels, printed on Dedar fabric with teak and brass structures, are composed of freely combinable rectangles. The dominant color is blue, in various shades, with sporadic yellow, white, green, and beige. The works transform painting into digital traces, then photography, then sculptural or furnishing objects. The collection, titled "Screenshot," was presented at Salone del Mobile 2017, exhibited from April 6 to 7 at Palazzo Serbelloni (home of Sotheby's Galleries) in Corso Venezia 16, Milan.