Mutanda refrigerator - The "Global Torso" Fridge by Fanty Building

Consumerism or Sculpture? When Your Fridge Becomes a Human Manifesto 

Is it an appliance, or a mirror of our identity? Fanty Building (Enrico Thanhoffer Munico) shatters the ceiling of industrial design with this sculptural refrigerator. Merging the Globism movement with the provocative Mutanda Buildings concept, this object ceases to be a tool and starts to be a manifesto.

The work is a fascinating meeting point between industrial design and anthropomorphic sculpture.

• Morphology: The object adopts the form of a stylized human torso. It evokes classical statuary (the bust) but reinterprets it through a vibrant, post-modern Pop language.

• The "Hyper-Sign" Texture: The surface is alive with deep, swirling grooves—resembling enlarged fingerprints, wood grains, or topographic maps. This texture adds a dynamic energy to the static form.

• Symbolic Chromaticism: Vibrant reds, saturated greens, and deep violets create a sharp visual fragmentation. The clean separation of colors reflects contemporary graphic language, turning the object into a high-gloss "fetish" of luxury.

•  2. Semantic and Symbolic Depth

• The "Globism" Concept: The work embodies Globism by fusing different elements into a single "global" body. These color zones represent different cultures or energies coexist in one harmonic, albeit fragmented, organism.

• Mutanda Buildings (Architecture of the Intimate): The central green element, shaped like briefs, is the cornerstone. Here, the "underwear" is not just clothing; it is a symbolic barrier between the exterior (aesthetic display) and the interior (the function of preservation and hidden "nourishment").

• Humanizing the Inanimate: By turning a fridge into a body, the artist inverts the man-object relationship. The fridge "contains" food to sustain the human body; here, the body itself becomes the container. It is a metaphor for consumerism: we become what we consume.

Fanty Building challenges the boundary between Interior Design and Visual Art.

The viewer is faced with a paradox: the object is functional (a lock/handle is visible on the side), yet its aesthetic power is so dominant that it almost inhibits practical use. The inclusion of the "underwear" introduces a note of irony and surrealism typical of Italian Radical Design.

The Verdict: A masterpiece about identity, skin (the surface as an interface), and the protection of the core.

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