’Primordial’ by British designer
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Hürriyet Daily News
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Ocak 28, 2009 00:00
ISTANBUL - Istanbul’s Galerist Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition by world-famous British designer Ross Lovegrove. The exhibition opened last week and displays the artist’s captivating collection of designs in which aluminum and carbon fiber have been stretched and shaped to their utmost limits.
The Galerist Art Gallery in Istanbul is hosting a captivating collection of designs by world-renowned British designer Ross Lovegrove. The exhibition features aluminum and carbon fiber pieces stretched and shaped to their utmost limits. The range also embodies a new piece by Lovegrove. The carbon-fiber motorcycle named "Ridon" will be exhibited for the first time in the world. Lovegrove has distinguished himself in the contemporary art and design world in his search to render pure forms using new materials, processes and technologies. With this showcase, the Galerist is presenting a body of work by one of the most influential and leading designers working today.
The exhibition is on view through Feb. 28 and sponsored by VitrA and supported by the British Council and Lumina. Also for the exhibition, a book titled "Primordial" has been prepared and published by the London-based world famous graphic designer Fernando Gutirrez. Lovegrove has signed all editions of the book.
Primordial
In "The Liquid Tables" series, objects are made by milling huge blocks of aluminum through a data transfer wherein no information is lost in translation from the conceptual basis to the physical existence. Each piece represents a rigorous exploration of the properties of the materials both in their solid and liquid states. The "Long Liquid Bench" is made from hand-polished milled aluminum and the "Liquid Carbon Bench" is made from carbon fiber. The two are powerful forms made truly graceful by the sophisticated handling of the materials. The liquid tables’ legs seem to have been stretched out from the metal, leaving a liquid void in each table’s surface. The "Gingko Carbon Table" speaks directly to Lovegrove’s fascination with living structures created by nature.
The table is made by an aerospace company currently fabricating a part of the wings for the new Airbus A380. The material has been drawn down from the inlets of the three-part Gingko leaf shape to form the stems of the table and represents the beautiful and poetic rendering of this symbolic shape made into a functional piece.
Moving beyond design
Lovegrove’s work over the last 20 years for some of the biggest companies in the world has set him apart as a designer who has moved beyond design and into the quest for consciousness-expanding shapes and forms. His deep research into the structure of nature and organic life has resulted in a number of different works of design and now sculpture in innovative materials that can be seen in art galleries as well as product showrooms.
The limited edition series "Primordial" presents Lovegrove’s passion and quest for experimentation, pushing the boundaries of material, technology and form where design intersects with fields such as biology and art.
Lovegrove’s phIlosophy
Born in 1958, Ross Lovegrove is a designer whose work is considered at the very apex of stimulating a profound change in the physicality of the three-dimensional world. He is inspired by the logic and beauty of nature. His designs possess a trinity between technology, materials science and intelligent organic form, creating what many see as the new aesthetic expression for the 21st century.
Winner of numerous international awards, Lovegrove’s work has been extensively published and exhibited internationally including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum NY, Axis Center Japan, Pompidou Center, Paris, the Vitra Design Museum Weil Am Rhein, Basel and the Design Museum, London, when in 1993 he curated the first permanent collection.
Galerist: Istiklal acd. Mısır Ap. 311/4,
Beyoğlu. Tel: 0212 244 8230
The exhibition is on view through Feb. 28 and sponsored by VitrA and supported by the British Council and Lumina. Also for the exhibition, a book titled "Primordial" has been prepared and published by the London-based world famous graphic designer Fernando Gutirrez. Lovegrove has signed all editions of the book.
Primordial
In "The Liquid Tables" series, objects are made by milling huge blocks of aluminum through a data transfer wherein no information is lost in translation from the conceptual basis to the physical existence. Each piece represents a rigorous exploration of the properties of the materials both in their solid and liquid states. The "Long Liquid Bench" is made from hand-polished milled aluminum and the "Liquid Carbon Bench" is made from carbon fiber. The two are powerful forms made truly graceful by the sophisticated handling of the materials. The liquid tables’ legs seem to have been stretched out from the metal, leaving a liquid void in each table’s surface. The "Gingko Carbon Table" speaks directly to Lovegrove’s fascination with living structures created by nature.
The table is made by an aerospace company currently fabricating a part of the wings for the new Airbus A380. The material has been drawn down from the inlets of the three-part Gingko leaf shape to form the stems of the table and represents the beautiful and poetic rendering of this symbolic shape made into a functional piece.
Moving beyond design
Lovegrove’s work over the last 20 years for some of the biggest companies in the world has set him apart as a designer who has moved beyond design and into the quest for consciousness-expanding shapes and forms. His deep research into the structure of nature and organic life has resulted in a number of different works of design and now sculpture in innovative materials that can be seen in art galleries as well as product showrooms.
The limited edition series "Primordial" presents Lovegrove’s passion and quest for experimentation, pushing the boundaries of material, technology and form where design intersects with fields such as biology and art.
Lovegrove’s phIlosophy
Born in 1958, Ross Lovegrove is a designer whose work is considered at the very apex of stimulating a profound change in the physicality of the three-dimensional world. He is inspired by the logic and beauty of nature. His designs possess a trinity between technology, materials science and intelligent organic form, creating what many see as the new aesthetic expression for the 21st century.
Winner of numerous international awards, Lovegrove’s work has been extensively published and exhibited internationally including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum NY, Axis Center Japan, Pompidou Center, Paris, the Vitra Design Museum Weil Am Rhein, Basel and the Design Museum, London, when in 1993 he curated the first permanent collection.
Galerist: Istiklal acd. Mısır Ap. 311/4,
Beyoğlu. Tel: 0212 244 8230