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Matteo Thun

The dimension of myth and ritual is thus recreated in the work of architect Matteo Thun: a sort of circle of “dolmens”, yet with a temporal dimension that brings together past and present, beginning with the title itself, “Fratelli tutti”. The homage to Pope Francis’s encyclical “Laudato sii” is clear, and his recent passing lends this work an additional note of emotion and gratitude.

With Matteo Thun, we therefore enter the question of the relationship between all human beings, as inhabitants of the same planet, without distinctions or borders, in a spiritual, almost mystical dimension, responding to the need for a profound reconnection with ourselves and with the world.

Artist biography

Matteo Thun was born in Bolzano in 1952 and is the eldest son of the South Tyrolean entrepreneurial Thun family, Lene and Othmar von Thun und Hohenstein. The family company, Thun S.p.A., was taken over in 1978 by his younger brother Peter.

Thun studied at the Salzburg Academy with Oskar Kokoschka and graduated in architecture in 1975 from the University of Florence. In 1978 he moved to Milan, where he met Ettore Sottsass, and in 1981 he was among the founders of Sottsass Associati and the Memphis Group. He worked for Swatch as art director from 1990 to 1993. From 1983 to 2000 he was professor of design and ceramics at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

In 1984 he founded his own multicultural architecture and design studio, based in Milan and Munich, Germany. The firm operates internationally and has been developing hospitality, residential, headquarters, retail, urban design and master planning projects for over 30 years. Together with his partner Antonio Rodriguez and a team of 70 experts in the fields of architecture, design and communication, he designs from the micro to the macro scale, following an interdisciplinary approach that has also led the studio to work with textiles.

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