Nicolò Bassetto’s Short Film Explores the Mysterious, Philosophical Facets of the Goto.
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As we approach the end of 2024 – the year marking our company’s 30th anniversary – we commissioned director Nicolò Bassetto a short film, asking him to interpret the Goto glass as a symbol of Laguna~B’s enduring DNA. Bassetto recovered a particular philosophical concept from his university anthropology class. Inspired by Husserl’s “Phenomenological Reduction,” he “tried to get to the Goto’s transcendental consciousness.” In the video, he puts the philosopher’s logic into practice in a personal, original way. “I imagined what functions this object could have if I didn’t know it was a glass. I tried to see it as a material form whose function I ignored.” The film begins by defining the drinking glass. It continues with an ascending climax where the Goto glass is used in increasingly surreal ways. Under Bassetto’s lens, it’s revealed to be much more than a drinking vessel. Transcending function, its true essence is exposed.
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Book tip by Erica Toffanin
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This month’s reading was suggested by Erica Toffanin, Laguna~B’s stylist and creative force.
Insalata di Fossili, by artist Luca Trevisani, has been recently published by Viaindustriae. “The book opens to a bizarre assembly of images of all kinds, meticulously printed, cataloged, and put together on a wall unfolding through the pages. Seen under an archaeological lens, the collection preserves elusive moments in a physical space – just like a fossil does, by petrifying life. Sequences of diverse time capsules share the same page. A picture of Ötzi, the human mummy found in the Alps; Andy Warhol’s collection of postcards, followed by photos showing an explosion in Baghdad; a fox captured by a surveillance camera while moving in the National Portrait Gallery’s Tudor section. On the same page are documents of Joseph Beuys’s performance, the cohabitation experiment with a stray coyote.
All these figurines coexist in an arbitrary and incomplete atlas, a collection of materials meticulously hunted by a class of students led by Luca Trevisani, Mario Ciaramitaro, and Giulia Morucchio. Insalata di Fossili is full of audacious cultural gestures – a catalog of interdisciplinary surprises, strikes, splashes, explosions.”
The B~Library is an exciting Laguna~B side project. It is a book collection curated (and continuously updated) by @studio.bruno located at Spazio, in Dorsoduro 3276, Venice. Anyone can borrow any book every day from 10 AM to 7 PM. Come and visit!
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New, Limited Postal Art for Your November Gifts
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We ran out of our latest limited edition postcards very quickly. So much so that our stylist and creative soul, Erica Toffanin, had to put herself right back to work and create brand-new postal art for you. She portrayed her very favorite piece from her favorite collection – the Berlingot EVO 2 – and tried to replicate the glass’ vibrant colors on paper. The postcards have been screen-printed in Venice by Fallani Venezia, in a limited run of 600. You’ll find them included in your orders starting in November.
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Our Connection to the Lagoon
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With the intensification of fieldwork in the central lagoon, Vital has expanded its workforce by involving new collaborators as Conservation Technicians – loosely called “green jobs” – to assist the team. Activities are extremely varied and range from monitoring to instrument maintenance, from boat handling to installing structures for ecosystem restoration. Other citizen science activities were carried out, as well as data management and analysis. Read the full article here. |
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Every month we update our Diary with behind-the-scenes photos from our everyday life at Laguna~B.
Check our October album here! |
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