Centro Fly

Mitterrand Saint-Honoré, Paris presents Centro Fly: Ettore Sottsass & Andy Warhol, an exhibition exploring the intersection of art and design in the mid-1960s. The show revisits the spirit of the 1966 Centro Fly exhibition in Milan, where Ettore Sottsass's "Mobili Fly" furniture collection for Poltronova was displayed. These pieces, characterized by geometric forms, verticality, and bold use of color and material, moved beyond strict functionality to become autonomous spatial objects, blurring lines between furniture, architecture, and sculpture.

The exhibition draws parallels between Sottsass's "Mobili Fly" creations and Andy Warhol's works, highlighting conceptual and formal correspondences. It features a selection of Warhol's pieces, known for their exploration of repetition, frontal composition, and mass culture, in dialogue with Sottsass's furniture. The exhibition aims to illuminate a pivotal moment in modernity where domestic objects and Pop imagery converged in a shared endeavor to redefine relationships with forms, signs, and contemporary visual culture.