Anita Morvillo  conceives her works through the synergy between expert manual labor and the use of various industrial technologies. Inspired by forms traceable to the nature of plants, roots, flowers, and the bony structures of amphibians and aquatic animals, she develops each piece in a unique and different way. THE Light is incorporated and filtered by bodies like semi-transparent inflated membranes made of taut steel wires, modeled on complex and discontinuous structural frameworks in space. These bodies reveal themselves through a simultaneity of profiles that can be gradually observed from different perspectives, thus appearing as if in constant motion.       

 

The absence of material solidity and the sense of liquidity of the works generate visual contradictions that lead the observer to an immediate inability to fully interpret the work, even though feeling attracted into an orbiting observation around it. The latter in turn generates and reveals itself during the more “private” experience of the observer.

 

 

 

 

Anita Morvillo trained as an architect at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in 2018, carrying out most of her academic training under the guidance of the architect Valerio Olgiati. A period of study with the Dutch architect Anne Holtrop allowed her to deepen research in the field of processing and experimentation with materials. 

 

After graduating in Architecture, she starts to independently conduct research in the design sculptural field working in parallel as  Architect and Teaching Assistant for the Swiss Architect Angela Deuber at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture and at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Norway. 

 

Since 2021, Anita Morvillo has been carrying out a practice that takes the form of a complex path of research and experimentation creating unique pieces, primarily in the field of lighting, but also fashion accessories. Her work explores the intersection of manual labor, for which she demonstrates a strong aptitude, and advanced industrial techniques, leveraging the resources of the area where her studio is based, Varese, in Northern Italy. This area, in fact, is rich in cutting-edge industrial facilities specializing in various types of mechanical processes.

 

In parallel to her practice she works also as project assistant for Riccardo Blumer studio.