The exhibition curated by Andrea Ciotti is a look at the laboratory of the Italian-Swiss architect, designer and professor of recent years. Blumer presents a series of objects and writings created by him that represent his complex activity between the various disciplines. The objects, which he defines as "luminous", build installations that in different ways showcase his construction ability on the themes of structure, optics and geometry. The "Souls" pronounce legible phrases on the back of their glass container thanks to the absence of refraction of light between the liquid and the contained glass statuettes, the "Dancers" twirl twisting colors into wooden and aluminum figures thanks to the geometry of the beloved hyperbolic paraboloid and the “Nomadic Shells” printed in relief on transparent sheets are traces of the beautiful summer beaches and the mollusc inventors who built them before abandoning them, now illuminated by a candle. At the same time, the exhibition displays the production of the first four "Riccardo Blumer Notebooks" published by Corraini, a new series from the important art and design publisher who has accustomed us for many years to its high quality productions. In the first Quaderni (Danzatori, Matrix, Via Spiga, Eclittiche), Blumer traces the red threads between teaching, architecture, study, travel and design.

His works created with the students of the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture of the USI (also a recent exercise on display), alternate with installations, architecture, objects and stories as if to bring order to these continuous rebounds between different disciplines that since times of the Compasso d'Oro at Laleggera Blumer accustomed us to distract ourselves from what we believed were defined paths. We remember with pleasure the "Blumerandfriends" conferences which in periods of great professional ferment for the author amazed many audiences, created to preserve and train in the profession itself the extreme need for knowledge as a training ground for creativity. Since then Blumer has dedicated himself more and more to teaching at the University of Mendrisio, participating, among other things, in the Venice and Seoul Architecture Biennale. Perhaps frightened by the recent impoverishment of research in design companies, these exhibited objects, created in his former Oratory of Casciago near Varese, remind us of the desire for constructive wonder expressed in small semi-industrial "series" which have the strength to reopen even for we themes a la “Blumerandfriends”. Topics that we, too old or too worried to still be students, don't have the opportunity to learn about. The passion that the author demonstrates through his creativity allows us to believe and trust in a world of love for pure research even for those fields of design that we mistakenly believe to be exclusively productive.