Aldo Cibic

A designer and scholar active since the late 1970s, Aldo Cibic (1955) was initially self-taught. His career took off in 1980 when he moved to Milan to join Ettore Sottsass’s studio, and soon became one of the partners. In 1981, he was one of the founding members of the Memphis group, the influential movement that questioned Modernism and re-established design, which left a mark at the time and on the subsequent evolution of design and architecture. Cibic was part of Memphis until its dissolution in 1987. His design experience working alongside Sottsass and designers from all over the world involved with the Memphis movement prompted Cibic to continue the process of experimentation, letting himself be guided by formal intuition and driven by emotion, which became an increasingly important aspect of design from the 1980s onwards. The result is a mixture of styles and vocabularies that cannot be identified with a signature. In addition to working as a ....

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