Andrea Anastasio is a professor of Design Anthropology at the MADE Program, Academy of Fine Arts in Syracuse.
After studying philosophy and graduating from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Andrea Anastasio designed furniture and objects for Memphis, Danese, and lamps for Artemide. In 1992, he moved to India, where he contributed to the cataloging of Islamic architecture for UNESCO and participated in projects to innovate traditional craft techniques. During the same period, he collaborated with the architectural design firm Mehrotra Associates in Mumbai, the Urban Design Research Institute in Mumbai, and the publishing house Tara Books in Chennai, with whom he published "Fingerprints" in 2009 and "Alone in the Forest" in 2013. Since 2005, he has exhibited with Galleria Alessandra Bonomo in Rome, GallerySke in Bangalore and New Delhi, Galleria Giustini Stagetti in Rome, and Luisa Delle Piane in Milan. His research focuses on the manipulation of objects, consumer goods, and materials from the domestic context to create linguistic short circuits and meaning sabotage. He is interested in studying the poetics and potential convergences of conceptual art with design. He was an artist in residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, USA, in 2005 and 2008. He won the Best Light Award at the Salone del Mobile in Milan in 2017 and the Best Light of the Year by Interior Design Magazine in the USA in 2017.
