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el ultimo grito, London
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 is the creative partnership of Roberto Feo (*1964) and Rosario Hurtado (*1966), founded in 1977, their Studio is currently based in London. Feo studied furniture design at the London College of Furniture and the Royal College of Art. He has been a lecturer at the Design Products Department, Royal College of Art, London since 1999. Hurtado studied Cabinet making and furniture design at Kingston University. She is a lecturer at the design department of Goldsmiths University in London.
In their work el ultimo grito re-use discarded materials to generate meaningful and individualised environments, which directly responds to the needs and dreams of their users.
“Tagged Environments #8” is the continuation of a series of installations on appropriating and transforming spaces using the absolute minimum of materials, such as by examining the aesthetic effect of a simple pattern based on the repetition of certain components. During a workshop in northern Spain, el ultimo grito worked with children to customize a variety of industrialized objects by reforming them and applying stickers to them. “These objects have now come to Essen, where we have re-interpreted them to adapt them to the new environment and to create a continuous environment in which they can all live as objects.” el ultimo grito have individualised a portion of their exhibition space with 20,000 specially designed stickers as an example of their “Design It Yourself” philosophy.
The contribution of el ultimo grito has been supported by:
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