Designer - Artiste - Ingénieur mécanique
(1950) - Buenos Aires - Argentine

Engineer, Manuel Corullon was a long time in practice in various sectors of the Brazilian mechanical industry. Attracted by the visual arts, he decides, at the beginning of the Nineties, to devote more specifically to the design and the manufacture of objects for other designers. The quality of his work is quickly pointed out in the fields of design and sculpture. He then starts to create his own parts, with the advantage of a very strong technical training. He draws pieces of furniture and mobiles for fashion stores, advertising agencies or even administrations.

Very quickly, he is interested in the production on a large scale of his creations and gives rise to new objects: armchairs, racks, luminaries, games, accessories, and what he describes as "interactive sculptures".

Today, the work of Manuel Corullon has two convergent aspects. He creates his own objects and is also interested in the second reading of former objects, often forgotten, sometimes reduced to a simple draft, in collaboration generally with the creator of the original creation. He says "With the aim to give a new life to some forgotten products, I decided to launch into the second reading of creations drawn in the past, because I find that some among them, by there great creative value, must not be forgotten". His work is then preceded by historical, social and cultural researches. He endeavours to synthesize the object by reconciling the function, the aestheticism and ingeniousness, without forgetting the human dimension and the adequacy of the object within its current environment. It is that way that he creates his series of mobiles.