From 18th September 2010 to 17th April 2011
Designer Felipe Ribon presents a selection of design objects from the Museum of Modern Art collection, on the theme of transparency and light.
Objects can be defined as solid, handled, generally manufactured things, related to external perception, belonging to everyday life, and reaching a certain goal.
The same definition can be applied to industrially manufactured objects in their current use.
But as soon as they are displayed in a museum, objects become a work of art, a story; their initial status is therefore disrupted, annihilated.
Moreover, their capacity to impact our perception is limited; they cannot be approached, touched, plugged, or heard.
The relation to objects, now only visual, is made incomplete.
The Transparences exhibition is an attempt to use this mutilation, and place the visual relation at the core of thought. If you cannot handle the thing you are looking at, you must handle it with your eyes.
Concentrating tension in the looking act itself consists of searching potential dialogues between light and objects; reaching an over excitement of sight, to highlight the visual features of the displayed objects.
This two-part exhibition will be unveiled completely on 20 November 2010, at the occasion of the International Design Biennial opening. The first part will be presented from 18 September 2010.
Designer Felipe Ribon presents a selection of design objects from the Museum of Modern Art collection, on the theme of transparency and light.
Objects can be defined as solid, handled, generally manufactured things, related to external perception, belonging to everyday life, and reaching a certain goal.
The same definition can be applied to industrially manufactured objects in their current use.
But as soon as they are displayed in a museum, objects become a work of art, a story; their initial status is therefore disrupted, annihilated.
Moreover, their capacity to impact our perception is limited; they cannot be approached, touched, plugged, or heard.
The relation to objects, now only visual, is made incomplete.
The Transparences exhibition is an attempt to use this mutilation, and place the visual relation at the core of thought. If you cannot handle the thing you are looking at, you must handle it with your eyes.
Concentrating tension in the looking act itself consists of searching potential dialogues between light and objects; reaching an over excitement of sight, to highlight the visual features of the displayed objects.
This two-part exhibition will be unveiled completely on 20 November 2010, at the occasion of the International Design Biennial opening. The first part will be presented from 18 September 2010.
