“In the project collaboration with Settecento Studio, the research focused on the transformation into two-dimensional decoration of some characteristic and iconic sculptural forms in Claudia Carpenito’s alphabet: the imperfect semicircle, the oblique line and one element in particular that is inspired by the ancient loops of vases in the region of eastern Apulia, Messapia.

In this small area of the world there was a real cultural Koiné, the people who crossed and inhabited Messapia mixing with the local populations, first the Cretans but later also the Romans, created a cultural stratification that gave rise to a common language, translated also in terms of artistic production whose artifacts, sculptures, pottery, jewelry, can be seen today at the archaeological museum of Egnatia.

It was exactly this meeting of alphabets and symbols that was the inspiration for the Koinè collection, in which artist/designer Claudia Carpenito has once again accomplished a wholly personal synthesis of an ancient language, reducing it to the essential “to carry with you”, and to use as “necessary baggage” to travel through this time in a constant cultural and linguistic operation between past and future.”