Riccardo
Rizzetto
Studio
Brexit Chair Italy X Brexit Chair, A European Creative Collaboration - Secature (Bassano del Grappa, 2019)
Brexit Chair Italy is part of Secature, Riccardo Rizzetto’s ongoing multidisciplinary project that redefines the act of cutting (secare) as a gesture of connection rather than division.
The work was realised in 2019 following an invitation by Steve Jensen Design to contribute as the Italian designer to Brexit Chair — A European Creative Collaboration, an initiative that gathered artists and designers from across Europe to respond to the fractures and uncertainties opened by Brexit.
Rizzetto’s Brexit Chair Italy brings together twenty discarded chairs — each symbolising one of Italy’s regions — reassembled into a single composite structure.
The act of cutting and reconfiguring becomes a means of unity rather than separation: fragmentation is embraced as a generative force, allowing the parts to evolve into a new, collective body.
The resulting object is both sculpture and statement — a reflection on identity, belonging, and the possibilities of reconstruction. The visible joints and seams record the process of negotiation and reconciliation, transforming division into connection.
Within the broader Secature cycle, Brexit Chair Italy extends Rizzetto’s exploration of the cut as both material gesture and philosophical operation: a way to reveal how discontinuity, rather than undermining cohesion, can become its very condition.
