Ettore Sottsass - L'Objet Magique
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Designer, architect, writer, poet, Ettore Sottsass Jr. (Innsbruck, Austria, 1917 - Milan, 2007) is the embodiment of the absolute creator. The instigator of a "methodology of doubt", he was a pioneer in every period of his life. Advocating an emotional experience of objects, he considered furniture to be the ultimate "architectural exercise", an instrument for both formal and spatial experimentation.
"I have always believed that design begins where rational processes end and those of magic begin."
The exhibition begins with Ettore Sottsass's early creative years, inspired by the artistic and architectural avant-garde, as well as literature and popular art. In the 1960s, Sottsass produced a significant body of ceramic work that explored both ritual and sensory dimensions. The 1960s and 1970s were also a period of radical experimentation, between design and architecture, from the Superbox (1966) to the nomadic architecture of the Container Furniture, created in 1972 for the MoMA in New York. In the 1980s, Sottsass founded Memphis. With its liberating approach to design, Memphis advocated a different approach to design, favouring the emotional and sensory dimension of objects. Throughout his life, Sottsass never stopped taking photographs. This exhibition places photography at the very heart of Sottsass's conceptual research through several hundred photographs, exhibited for the first time, from the collections of the Centre Pompidou.
The exhibition brings together a unique collection of major historical pieces and creates a dialogue between design objects and Sottsass's graphic research: drawings, installations, photographs and films are brought together from the Centre Pompidou's collections and thanks to loans from public and private collections. The catalogue is as fascinating as the work it presents.
French
Hardcover
EAN: 9782844269072
Number of pages: 240
Publication date: 13/10/2021
Dimensions: 24 cm x 34 cm
Author: Marie-Ange Brayer
Publisher: Éditions du Centre Pompidou
© Centre Pompidou
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