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Corradino Garofalo is a designer living and working in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. His practice focuses on the relationship between individuals and society, with a particular interest in exploring the role of cultural values in characterising human relations and interactions within social groups. Garofalo's research treads the thin line between geographical and anthropological contexts, using metaphors and analogies as the foundation of his design framework. His fascination with cinematography, photography, video projections, and video installations has led him to an interdisciplinary approach to design.
He co-founded the Samples Lab, a collective of visual artists active between 2007 and 2011 in South Italy. From 2010 to 2011, after completing his bachelor's degree, he practised industrial design while collaborating with engineers and technicians in Naples and Caserta, South Italy. In 2014, after completing a master's degree in Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, he co-founded the Fictional Collective—an international group of creative practitioners. He runs Studio Corradino Garofalo, an interdisciplinary design studio working on contextual research projects, objects, education, and curation. The studio, founded in October 2015, is based at Sectie-C, Eindhoven. He is part of the content team at Sectie-C, a group of creatives assembled to work on curating the cultural program on the premises.
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Partenopea is a collection of six objects that materialise the profound connection between an ignimbrite rock and a city landscape that has been carved out of its foundation. The shapes are drawn from two distinct concepts, although intertwined by the anthropic action characterising the surrounding: the former symbolising the movement in elevation, the latter representing the solid- void relationship resulted from human intervention over 2.700 years. Naples is a city built on the tuff and with the tuff, a homogeneous reality where the architecture of man has altered that of nature, using the same material to model a total and complex urban environment. This authentic continuity narrates the violent contrast and mysterious spaces but also perfect integration between natural and artificial.
Le Figure is a material process revolving around the mask as the research subject. The project draws from the Master's Thesis research The Fourth Wall, which explores the role of the mask in contemporary society.
The series of ceramic one-offs breaks the precise and consistent reproduction of shapes despite the slipcasting technique, celebrating authenticity in each of its artefacts by deep, irreversible physical interventions on the mould.
Corradino Garofalo’s work is essentially contextual. Since his previous projects, he has approached materials by looking at the cultural and natural context where they are used and processed. In his new collection titled Echoes, he proposes a self-referential turn to reflect on the material and immaterial relationships that shaped his personal life and his studio’s practice: what if the context is the studio?
Through this inward look, leftovers, material traces of antecedent projects, offcuts, and donated materials by friends and colleagues become a series of one-off, collectable design pieces. These heterogeneous materials waited years stored in the studio, each holding a promise and potential of becoming something new. This collection offers the pretext of fulfilling those promises and closing a circle, cherishing the memories of twelve years in Eindhoven and condensing them in this series. Each object is an intersection of preceding works, collaborations, human relationships and anecdotes that Garofalo generously offers as souvenirs of his practice, consolidating the past and marking a new start in his professional and personal journey.
