Aion in the Sassi of Matera

The project

The Advantage Premiere project Art
is an integral part of the activities of the Advantage Foundation which, in the person of its President Francesco Confuorti, has already participated with one of his speeches at the UN Global Compact in Matera in 2018, where it will establish its own presence on Sustainability and Africa. Advantage Foundation presents in Matera an installation by the artist Louise Manzon in contiguity with the themes of social and environmental sustainability also promoted by Advantage.green

The artist

Louise Manzon was born in São Paulo in Brazil and grew up in a cosmopolitan family, forming between South America, Europe and the United States. She graduated in Industrial Design at the "Armando Alvares Penteado" Foundation in San Paolo. He collaborated with an international architecture firm and continued his studies, obtaining a master's degree in Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute in New York, where he measured himself with different expressive languages and artistic styles.

He worked as a designer at the Young & Rubicam agency in New York City. His sculptures have been exhibited in the United States and Italy. Philippe Daverio, Achille Bonito Oliva, Alain Elkann, Luca Beatrice and Paul Laster have written about her and her work.

Aion

Aion represents eternity, as a time that begins unceasingly, without a true beginning and a true end.
The concept of Aion, is assimilated to the perennial migration process, which has always existed and will exist forever, as inherent in human nature. Louise Manzon's sculptures are also associated with the female figure, the bearer of life, guardian of dreams and hopes, interpreters of human strength and dignity.

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