Cine São José: 35 Years Of Estúdio Campana

      As the design community remembers the towering contributions of Fernando Campana, Friedman Benda presents an exhibition in his honor. Cine São José includes an extensive arc of objects, surveying the pivotal impact of Estúdio Campana in the 21st century and referencing key moments from the first 15 years of the studio’s existence. Cine São José will premiere some new works that amalgamate the studio’s core ideologies while marking this moment in time.

      Cine São José, references the cinema in the Campana brothers’ hometown, Brotas, where they spent a significant part of their youth, as the silver screen was their main window to the world. The show is a chronology, tracing iconic works, that are not only imbued with local, social, artistic, and personal contexts, but show what in the words of Deyan Sudjic calls the “recalibration” of objects of contemporary design.