RON ARAD AT IVORYPRESS
September 5, 2013 - November 9, 2013
RON ARAD AT
IVORYPRESS
September 5,
2013 - November 9, 2013
From 5
September, Ivorypress will host a solo exhibition of architect and designer Ron
Arad (Tel Aviv, 1951). The show—as part of the annual architecture programme
celebrated each autumn at Ivorypress to mark the beginning of the season—covers
the achievements and the latest work of this label-defying artist who has been
based in London since the 1970s.
The
exhibition, which will run until 9 November, shows his singular perspective on
architecture, design and the artistic object. With his interest in experimentation
as a starting point, Ron Arad studies the expressive possibilities of different
materials such as steel, aluminium, Corian and polyethylene.
His approach
to form and structure turns his designs into pieces of a certain freedom,
unlimited by links or borders. ‘The principle is that everything should be
based on something that didn’t exist before’, says Arad. In line with this
philosophy, the show includes some of his most iconic works along with
industrially produced objects and several mock-ups and architectural projects.
Among Arad’s
latest experiments that will be on show at Ivorypress Space, the Folly bench
(2013) is particularly worthy of mention. Made by rotational moulding, Folly
constitutes a large sculptural object composed of soft lines that endow it with
great vitality. Movement, whether in his functional creations or in his purely
aesthetic pieces, is always the main element of his work.
Also among
the objects on show is Blame the Tools (2013), in line with Arad’s
early works made of waste materials. Additionally, the selection includes
several sculptural bookcases such as Free Standing China (2010)—a single piece
of stainless and Corten steel in the shape of the map of China and its
provinces— and No Bad Colours (2013), which is the source of
another experimental line of inquiry, centred on technological components
rather than on plastic or ergonomic value.
‘Contrary to
any form of purism, the work of this creator escapes categorisation’, says
journalist and historian Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, who specialises in architecture.
Ron Arad is ‘multidisciplinary, incapable of pigeonholing himself as an artist;
he uses cutting-edge techniques but continues to be a craftsman
nevertheless—significantly more of a designer than he is an architect.’ The
exhibition at Ivorypress Space provides the opportunity to observe the
diversity of his work and to re-examine his creative production. A decade has
passed since Ron Arad’s last solo exhibition in Spain, which took place in
Barcelona in 2003
at the Centre
d’Art Santa Mònica, in Barcelona.
Ron Arad
received his training from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, in Jerusalem,
and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, in London. In 1981 he
founded the One Off design and production studio with Caroline Thorman and in
1989 he created the Ron Arad architecture and design studio. He has also been
Professor of Design Products at Royal College of Art in London from 1998 to
2009.
Ron Arad has
exhibited his work in renowned museums and galleries worldwide, including the
Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, MoMA
(Museum of Modern Art) in New York, or Barbican Art Gallery in London. His work
can be found in prominent public and private collections such as the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am
Rhein, Germany, and the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou or the
Victoria and Albert Museum.
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RON ARAD
Ron
Arad (Tel Aviv, Israel, 1951) is an industrial designer. He
received his training from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, in Jerusalem,
and the Architectural
Association
School of Architecture, in London. Apart from his professional career as
architect and designer, he has also pursued a career in teaching as professor of
Design Products at Royal College of Art in London from 1998 to 2009 and as
guest professor at Vienna’s Hochschule between 1994 and 1997.
In 1981
he cofounded the One Off design and production studio with Caroline Thorman and
in 1989 he created the architecture and design studio Ron Arad Associates.
Additionally, between 1994 and 1994 he established the Ron Arad Studio, design
and production unit in Como, Italy. He was awarded the London Design Week Medal
for design excellence in 2011 and in 2013 he was elected as a Royal Academician
by the Royal Academy of Art in London.
Some of
his most celebrated designs are the Rover chair, created in 1981,
and the Bookworm bookshelf, designed in 1994 and which is still
produced by the firm Kartell today. He has created designs for companies like
Vitra, Swarovski, Kenzo, Moroso, Fiam, Driade, Alessi, Nani Marquina and Flos.
Particularly
noteworthy among his architectural projects is the Maserati showroom in Modena,
the Selfridges Technology Hall in London, the foyer of The New Israeli Opera
and the Bauhaus Museum in Tel Aviv or the living room and family dining room
for Sheikh Saud Al-Thani’s villa in Qatar. He has also designed, together with
Bruno Asa, the Design Museum Holon, which opened in 2010 as the first design and
architecture museum in Israel, at the University of Tel Aviv.
Ron
Arad has exhibited his work in museums and galleries including the Victoria and
Albert Museum in London, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, MoMA (Museum of
Modern Art) in New York and the Vitra Museum in London. His work was exhibited
in Spain in 2003 with the exhibition Permetre’s la Llibertat at
the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, in Barcelona, and in autumn 2013 the Ivorypress
gallery will present his second exhibition in this country, this time in Madrid.
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