In line with the evolution of recent years, the 2019 Lissone Design Award reconfirms the formula of direct invitation and alongside the prize section a rich program of themed exhibitions. By sifting through stories, ideas and identities, the seventh edition of the Lissone Design Award maintains a very close link with the history of the City and the Museum of Lissone, in fact it intends to deepen the events of the past to be able to reflect and understand the most current research.

The thematic area of the 2019 edition is part of a liminal research, in which the disciplines blend into each other; design and visual arts (which correspond to the double vocation of the MAC of Lissone) question the concept of “amnesia”. The six invitations to individual authors and / or working groups involve Martina Brugnara, Duccio Maria Gambi, Simona Pavoni and the collectives bn + BRINANOVARA, Nucleo, Parasite 2.0, a small group of names including the Jury - formed by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Beppe Finessi and Alberto Zanchetta - will decide this year's winner.

Bn + BRINANOVARA propose Set Elements for an Ancient Memory , an installation that evokes the museum reconstruction of fragments from Greek sculptures. Martina Brugnara exhibits the complete series of her Lodgings, containers that transform into their own content. Duccio Maria Gambi presents the Cold War collection made up of objects that combine concrete and ceramic coverings. The Turin collective NUCLEO selected some furnishings that were located in the apartment where the latest generation of Futurists met, hiding and adding time wastes to them in the form of solidifications. The Parasite 2.0 nominate for the prize a marble chair that can be assembled in different configurations, some elements of the Ugly-ism series characterized by a deformed and dysfunctional aesthetic, finally they cover waste furniture with adhesive tape. Simona Pavoni exhibits the Custody cycle , a series of sculptures that wrap fragile raw clay architectures (small “protections” that satisfy the need to cure and preserve).

On the sidelines of the prize section, the MAC in Lissone hosts six other exhibition projects that propose works, objects, site-specific interventions, documents and vintage photographs that insist on the concept of Amnesia, in the hope of remembering rather than forgetting.