DENNY CANDOTTO

via Luigi Boccherini, 8
20131 - Milano

M. + 39 328 309 1648

E. info@dennycandotto.com

I. @dennycandotto

ABOUT

Denny Candotto is an architect, artist and designer based in Milan. Trained in Architecture, his practice spans product design, collectible design, architecture, art, istallations and interiors, through a cross disciplinary approach that brings together design research, material exploration, and experimentation.

His work unfolds across independent projects and collaborations with companies, galleries, and artisans, including his ongoing collaboration with Michele De Lucchi at AMDL Circle. Each project originates from a theme that precedes form. The project thus becomes the medium through which the author, as the signifier of his own creative gesture, translates an idea into matter.: form is never purely functional, but the result of a design process that comes to life through the dialogue between materials, craftsmanship and thought. Within this process, the relationship with artisans is fundamental: they are the hands that carve the stone, smooth the wood and translate thought into matter.

His works and projects have been presented in exhibitions, events and fairs, maintaining at their core a reflection on the relationship between space, material and the human being.

COLLABORATIONS/REPRESENTED BY

Collaborator of AMDL CIRCLE

https://amdlcircle.com/

Co-founder of SBAM Studio

https://sbam-project.com/

Represented by YAH FACTOY

https://www.youngarthunters.com/ita/denny-candotto/

PRESS/EXHIBITION

IL SOGNO DI DEMETRA
GALLERIA SAN BABILA, MILANO
Mostra collettiva - Collective exhibition
apr. 2024

NUMPHAION
GALLERIA PICCOLO LIDO, BORDIGHERA
Mostra collettiva - Collective exhibition
jul. 2024

TENSIONI MANIFESTE
GALLERIA COLLA SUPER, MILANO
Mostra personale - Solo exhibition
jul. 2024

ARTRIBUNE

https://www.artribune.com/mostre-evento-arte/denny-candotto-tensioni-manifeste/
jul. 2024

GOGO2025
HONORABLE MENTION

https://www.triestecontemporanea.it/event/cerimonia-di-premiazione-e-mostra-conclusiva-di-seats-of-understanding/
jul.2024

ILLUSTRAMI
THE YAH GALLERY, MILANO
Mostra collettiva - Collective exhibition
sep. 2024

EXIBART

https://www.exibart.com/evento-arte/illustrami-7/
sep. 2024

ABOUT ARCHIVIO
THE MOST STUPID PLACE, MILANO
Mostra collettiva - Collective exhibition
feb. 2025

SALONE SATELLITE
MDW25, MILANO
Fiera del design - Design fair
may. 2025

ARTISTS DIARIES, A Journey in a Journal
Hubartexhibition Gallery, BARCELONA
Mostra collettiva - Collective exhibition
may. 2025

RISONANZE SPAZIALI
Church of San Giovanni Battista in Malina, UDINE
Mostra personale - Solo exhibition
jUNE. 2025

EURITMIA
Circolo De Amicis, MILANO
Mostra collettiva - Collective exhibition
sep. 2025

PARA-TAXIS
Spazio HASITA, MILANO
Mostra Personale - Solo exhibition
march. 2026

GRAZIA BRUTALE
Spazio Kriptos, MILANO
Mostra Personale - Solo exhibition
apr. 2026

ForA
Fabbrica del Vapore, MDW26, MILANO
Mostra collettiva - Collective exhibition
apr. 2026

5Vie Art+Design
MDW26, MILANO
Mostra collettiva - Collective exhibition
apr. 2026

IN-HABIT-OUT - MDW- 26, 5Vie Art+Design, 2026

Milan does not reveal itself in tourist guides: it unfolds only to those who wander through its authentic neighbourhoods, among hidden courtyards, green-painted railings, and quiet residential buildings. There, even the least experienced eye perceives the succession of eras, styles, and architectural languages, as if the city were a stage that suddenly changes its scenery.

From this premise arises IN-HABIT-OUT, a collection of five shadow boxes: small architectures to inhabit with objects, to leave empty, or simply to observe as fragments of Milan in miniature. The title, IN-HABIT-OUT, is a neologism that follows a trajectory from the inside outward: “IN” represents intimate and private space; “IN-HABIT” the individual and social condition of inhabiting a space; “OUT” what inevitably manifests from that intimacy into the outside world and therefore into the city.

Each shadow box interprets symbolic eras of Milanese living: from the quintessential courtyard house to the most recent forms of social housing. Wood, the material from which the “little houses” are made, is carefully selected and carries with it the flavour of each era: warmth, ornament, grandeur, the taste of its time. Material becomes language, and wood, like the city, tells the story of what people leave upon their homes: ambitions, ideals, compromises.

These shadow boxes are small suspended scenes, miniature urban theatres. But beware: they are not souvenirs, nor simple decorative objects. They are provocations. Experiments in scale and synthesis, images stripped of their context not to be isolated, but rather to catalyse a personal reflection. The private invades the public, emptiness becomes spectacle, memory becomes art.

The five episodes of Milanese living reinterpreted:

• Courtyard House
• City Palace
• Liberty Townhouse
• Modernist Apartment Block
• Social Housing

IN-HABIT-OUT is a conceptual and material game: hang, observe, furnish, inhabit. Each piece is a small urban theatre, a fragment of the city to manipulate and question. It is architecture applied to art and design; Milan compressed into five frames. Here, the boundary between house and city, between inside and outside, dissolves, and perhaps it is precisely there that authentic dwelling begins.

IN-HABIT-OUT - MDW- 26, 5Vie Art+Design, 2026

DISPOSITIVO COLONNA

In these further pieces space contracts and deepens, finding its rationale in minimal, sometimes marginal elements.

Construction no longer occurs through aggregation or founding gesture, but through attention: space emerges from details that, once isolated, become carriers of structure and measure.

Dispositivo Colonna 2026

ROSETO
Roseto is a vase that takes shape through the person who uses it, adapting to the number of roses and to the gesture with which they are arranged. A base in Rosso Levanto marble and three elements made of glass define an essential system that changes each time according to the composition. A single rose finds space in the smallest element, ten in the intermediate one, one hundred in the largest. Each quantity activates a different configuration, designed to respond directly to the presence of the flower. The three elements can be used individually or together and, when combined, even without water, they build a compact and almost sculptural presence. The stone provides stability, the glass receives without interfering. Roseto does not impose a form but lets it emerge from use, from the number of flowers and from the way they are arranged in space. In this minimal balance, the object remains the same and at the same time is never identical to itself.

ROSETO for Spazio Hasita, Para_Taxis, 2026

EDERA for Spazio Hasita, Para_Taxis, 2026

EDERA
Edera is awooden stool that grows as ivy does: light, yet tenacious. The seat, carved like a lobed leaf, seems to breathe. Its curves speak of a silent growth, of an embrace that expands. And just as ivy climbs, the stools stack, finding in one another their momentum. It is not merely an object, but a fragment of nature that rises gently and lives in synergy.

EDERA for Spazio Hasita, Para_Taxis, 2026

LIMINAL ARCHITECTURES

They take shape as fragile yet intentional apparitions, ephemeral structures that seem to arise at the very moment they begin to dissolve. They are suspended devices, provisional places that, despite their transitory nature, attempt to establish a space, a gesture, a possible way of being.

These presences—roofs that do not protect, narrow passages that do not constrain, screens that do not conceal—allow themselves to be traversed as forms poised between construction and intuition; micro-territories that invite the individual to a sensitive, almost ritual exploration of space and self.

LIMINAL ARCHITECTURES - Convergenza

LIMINAL ARCHITECTURES - Raccoglimento

SPATIAL RESONANCES - SOLO EXHIBITION

SPATIAL RESONANCES - SOLO EXHIBITION
Set within the evocative space of the Church of San Giovanni Battista in Malina, Spatial Resonances offered a profound reflection on the relationship between form and space. Denny Candotto’s works engaged in a silent dialogue with the architecture, balancing between solid and void, latent tensions and invisible forces. It was a poetic and physical exploration where sculpture became gesture, weight, and vibration—immersing the viewer in an experience of silence, light, and resonance.

EFFIMERA
A collection that explores the hidden relationships between structure and surface. In these works, the building is no longer a stable object, but a vibration: a threshold that emerges from the dynamic interplay between support and skin, between what sustains and what appears.

The subjects are situated precisely within this tension, exploring how solids and voids pursue and define one another, giving shape to an architecture that does not seek to endure, but to manifest itself.

ARTISTS DIARIES, BARCELONA - Effimera, Velo

COLLECTION MDW 25

MDW 25
At the 2025 Salone Satellite, Denny Candotto presents three projects: Bruta, Diva, and Plinto. Although distinct in techniques and materials, they are united by a shared concept: a design approach where experience and craftsmanship play a fundamental role in the creative process. It is the imperfection, intuition, and sensitivity of the human hand that gives each element a unique character, harmonizing with the rationality of industrial processes. A symbiotic meeting between craftsmanship and product.

BRUTA - MDW 25

BRUTA
Bruta is a chair with a brutalist design, available in two versions: one in varnished ash wood and the other in various natural wood essences. The components are characterized by strong volumetry and a raw finish, devoid of unnecessary grace.

BRUTA - MDW 25

DIVA
Diva is a seat inspired by industrial and high-tech architecture, transforming into a refined work of engineering. The backrest and seat in methacrylate offer a 360-degree view of its metal structure, which unfolds in its three-dimensional forms.

DIVA - MDW 25

PLINTO
Plinto arises from an approach where the artisan defines the final shape of the object. It responds to the contemporary man’s need for symbolic gym tools, designed to integrate into homes, offering home workouts without objects with a technical aesthetic.

PLINTO - MDW 25

CANNULA
Starting from the natural arrangement of flowers and their stems, is a vase that reinterprets this compositional scheme through the tubes of the vase itself, playing with the varying heights of the flowers and their stems. Made with metal tubes of different heights and a base of Piasentina stone, is designed to hold a precise number of cut flowers, creating a play of heights that enhances the balance of the arrangement. An object that not only holds but celebrates the natural beauty of the flowers in a refined balance with form.

Cannula - Ready made, 2025

Scivolerebbe - About Archivio, 2025

SCIVOLEREBBE
From the oblique division of a cylinder emerge two complementary halves: a support that holds the sandpaper and a soap bar. The inclination, which allows the soapy water to slide, entrusts the sandpaper with the task of retaining the soap, transforming the limit into function.

Disincanto - Conceptual Art, 2025

DISINCANTO
That which gives us color and nourishment, that which makes us alive and transports us into the beauty of the world, could suddenly harden irreversibly, as if even the breath itself were to stop. Yet, in this moment of fragility, we are compelled to live with the strength we have absorbed, trying to embrace it as a new part of ourselves. The challenge does not lie in changing the course of events, but in accepting the transformation, in learning to walk with that same force that once nourished us, now suspended between softness and hardness, in a fragile balance that teaches us to live in its essence.

MORSO
Inspired by the concept of the ready-made, a poetic tribute to the ability of objects to reveal themselves in new ways through their unconventional use. “Morso” is a bookshelf that, like a loving yet firm clamp, holds books between the surfaces of the home. Each element of the house transforms into a refuge for the written word, where beauty and functionality intertwine in a subtle yet intense embrace. An act of poetry that not only decorates but also protects.

Morso - Ready made, 2025

DAMA
Dama is an ashtray that draws inspiration from the arrangement of holes seen in Chinese checkers, providing designated spots for cigarette placement. Crafted entirely from stone, its concave top surface, coupled with the dimensions of holes, ensures usability for all potential users.

Dama ashtray - Julia Marmi, 2024

SINUOSA
A metal chair made through the casting process, composed of two main pieces. The sinuous shape that defines its lines and legs becomes both its name and its distinctive feature.

Sinuosa - Fluid metal chair , 2024

Tensioni Manifeste - Colla Super, 2024

"La sospensione, l’equilibrio mancato, il colore concentrato, la scala di grigi, il chiaroscuro, la forma plastica, le parole: queste le caratteristiche della ricerca dell’artista. I protagonisti delle tele evocano dei personaggi o delle situazioni indefinite: la tensione superficiale che ne scaturisce è capace di esaltare figure ricche di significati che costruiscono microcosmi evocativi. Lo sfondo è esattamente uno sfondo, in cui ogni figura è protagonista assoluta. Come quando si disegna e si progetta una sedia, il fondo è bianco, non ci interessa la libreria che può starci dietro. Le figure appaiono trafitte e sospese in uno spazio e in un tempo indefiniti, ma c’è qualcosa che tiene insieme tutto. È come se ci fosse una specie di magia, che non ci viene spiegata. Quello che sembra chiaro, è che una così sottile linea incontra una massa, e le due in qualche modo vibrano. Emerge una dicotomia molto forte tra la leggerezza e la pesantezza. La massa, culturalmente dotata di una sua pesantezza, appare priva di autonomia, mentre il filo, per definizione elemento molle e informe, sembra essere ciò che sorregge le figure. Leggerezza e pesantezza sembrano così invertirsi nella loro definizione originaria, come descrive Kundera. Forse, tutto quello che scegliamo e apprezziamo come leggero non tarda a rivelare il proprio peso. Ma davvero la pesantezza è terribile e la leggerezza meravigliosa? Quanto più una cosa pesa, tanto più è vicina alla terra, tanto più è reale e autentica. La pesantezza, la necessità e il valore sono tre concetti intimamente legati tra loro: solo ciò che è necessario è pesante, solo ciò che pesa ha valore. Ma chi è pesante non può fare a meno di innamorarsi perdutamente di chi vola lievemente nell'aria, tra il fantastico e il possibile, mentre i leggeri sono destinati ai corpi e alle anime possedute dalla pesantezza."
Credits. Marta Marrone

Tensioni Manifeste - Colla Super, 2024

STELA BENCH
The history of relations and borders between Italy and Slovenia has been very complex, causing insurmountable obstacles and difficulties for populations living near the border. The project aimed to see this territory as a single borderland, as Claudio Magris writes in Microcosmi: “Borders are more than dividing lines; they are transition spaces where cultures, languages, and histories blend.”

It is precisely in this sense that the Stela Bench was born—an urban bench that seeks to honor a past that should not be forgotten. A monument with meaning across languages, it also embodies the symbolism of a stone, historically used as a commemorative monument and a symbol of collaboration and diplomacy.

STELA Bench - Seats of Understanding, 2024

STELA BENCH
Borders can transform differences into resources and division into connection, thus making reference to the complex history of divided yet united territories in many respects. The bench builds its design on the axes, routes, and imaginary boundaries shared by these cities.

The name “Stela” not only carries a universally understood meaning, but also represents how cultural and geographical variety can be a source of enrichment rather than separation. In the calm aftermath of a tempestuous storm, residents of Gorizia and Nova Gorica sit together on Stela, with their young grandchildren captivated, envisioning a future interwoven in the spectrum of a rainbow—this encapsulates the visionary essence of the project.

CNDDNY
This pair of glasses was created with the brand's intention to have an iconic piece in its collection. The concept stems from the idea of working on the glasses in three dimensions, using layers of different materials. Available in four different colors, it becomes a striking pair of glasses that defines the face of the wearer.

Cnddny - Voglade Eyewear, 2022

Dura - Ro Plastic Prize, 2022

DURA
Half of the plastic produced globally is designed for single-use purposes. It is used once and then immediately discarded. Now, imagine increasing the thickness of one of these polluting items until it becomes rigid, present, and durable, transforming it into a long-lasting product. This object would not only serve as a functional design piece but also raise awareness about recycling and the proper use of plastic, highlighting the old and incorrect practices that have led to its misuse. In this case, however, these practices have been reinterpreted into a solid, purposeful design product. For its creation, injection molding technology will be used, with polycarbonate as a 100% recyclable material.

Dura - Ro Plastic Prize, 2022