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If you know who Ross Lovegrove is, you know a lot more than I do. An industrial designer, a “sculptor” of technology. He has taken nature and living processes as the inspiration for his work. What I was about to see was an exhibition retracing Lovegrove’s quest for a new paradigm of design as the convergence of art, design, technology and nature.
It was mind boggling and I mean it. Dynamic in form, his pieces register the digital transformation of the contemporary world while opening up the possibility of new ways of life informed by the notion of sustainability. He develops complex structures in innovative materials and lightweight as well. Everything from everyday objects to motor cars from aviation to architecture. His concept is:-
“DNA” = Design, Nature, Art - he establishes the closest ties between, digital technology, science and organic forms. I felt as if I was in a new world and such an exciting one when I went into the exhibition.
Now, let me show you your new world.
Huge, sparkling the Concept car Swarovski Crystal Aerospace (2005-2006). He was fascinated by solar-powered cars developed for the trans-Australian World Solar Car challenge and inspired by the Swarovski Crystal aerospace. A vehicle for the future, a concept car running on solar energy. Each of the thousand panels holding a crystal specially cut by the brand. The electricity produced is stored in the lithium batteries inside the car. Of course, finding a place to park it may be a little difficult.
This is called “Instinctive Override Animation (2012). “Cocoon” is a cruciform structure covered with a textile skin and lined with a membrane. Inside is the video instillation. The images fuse the dynamics of a car in motion with those of a water droplet. We are immersed in a digital environment. There seemed to be a sound coming from inside - a low heart beat….but in actual fact I think it may have come from behind me…
(Can anyone tell me how to change the title. Not Japan of course
These two sculptures done in 1999 were not as big as they seem to be here…how I would like them in my book case…
This as you see at once in a staircase, (2012-2017). Beautiful to look at and perhaps not so dangerous to climb...
as this one
Both the chaise longe and tabouret Oasi, (1998-2002) would look very much in place in my own flat…
Or how about this bamboo
bike? It is made of steel, aluminium, polymer and bamboo held together
by forged metal joints. It was developed to highlight the shortcomings
of the ordinary frame. The system is economical and flexible….oh it can
be hung on a wall if you are short of space.
CALGAT - Can a lily grow a telephone? 2008
A space saver as well. This Transat Qwerty/Apollo, (1997).
He explained these Coralised Chairs (2012) in a video. They are part of an experimental investigations of 3D printing itaking a series of a hundred chairs. All unique, subject to variations inspired by human anatomy. The chair’s three feet have an air of a body structure. The seat recalls something like a soft tissue while the backrest suggests a vertebral column. If of course they are comfortable to sit on is another story.
Your car of the future? Electric of course. Apparently the product of the most advanced technologies. basically to achieve lightness. The opposing doors open electrically in response to a touch-sensitive buttons. And the Klein blue seduced me at once…
These six stereolithographic studies make up Cellular Automata and are based on a scan of bones of a human forearm that reveals the living bone tissue and its organic matrix. We are told that the result is a strong, lightweight three-dimensional form which could be applied to many areas of design. As they are, I find them quite beautiful.
A collection of lights on a chlorophilia background and below foliate jewellery (2014 and 2015).
foliate jewellery
Do you see anyone you know wearing these shoes? United Nude Ilabo shoes stand at the intersection of design, architecture and bio-engineering. Printed in 3D…I saw a girl walking in them in the video. It was if they were part of her ankle and going up her leg
A Diatom Chair is inspired by diatoms, or unicellular algae found in the sea, in fresh water and on land. Ultra light and can be stacked…
This is Cosmic Collection (2009-2010) developed for Artemide. A series of three lights. Cosmic Angle, Cosmic Leaf and Cosmic landscape. It captures light from seven different sources, modulating the colour and making for a very atmospheric light…better than candles…
Hard to believe but they are bottles created for the Kenzo Perfume, (2010-2011). For men. They look quite primitive to me, even like prehistoric stone tools. The use of glass and matt aluminium helps to outline the object. I showed the photo to Jerome - he loved them.
Now we have a collection of the four season Kiko (Italian) make-up collection. (2016-2017)
Perhaps this is where our great grandchildren will be living - in the Villa Matoso (the maquette was created for a private villa in Porto, Portugal - 1997).
Lovegrove drew much of his inspiration from the skeletons or rather palaeontology. He spent hours in the Botanical garden museum when he was setting up this exhibitions. There he showed us where so many of his designs come from. Look at this spectacular crane and see for yourselves all the different creations within its frame.
The first digital camera designed in 1990? Made out of moulded elastomer and rubber! The finished camera is on top. Perhaps not what we know today but very much ahead of its time then.
In 1999, a Welsh mineral water company Ty Nant asked Ross Lovegrove to design a new bottle for them, in plastic. The challenge he set himself was to create a surface suggesting water in its purity and fluidity with a form which shows its movement. It was the first industrial product in the world to be generated by using algorithms and some other equation which I did not understand…even when I researched it, it was not clear. But then maths never were for me. Non the less, it is the most divine bottle…
Japan Airlines - seats designed between 1998-2002. First class travel of course!
Here is a video which show how Lovegrove presents the exhibition.
There was practically too much for my mind to take in. Lovegrove was born in 1958 in Cardiff and lives and works in London. Without any doubt I was bowled over by what I saw and will try and see more of his work. It’s amazing.
Over the years, I have gone on discovering Wifredo Lam. He has been mentioned in different Blog chapters but always within permanent collections. I have to admit today that in the early years, I took one of his paintings for a Picasso….and seeing certain paintings of his today, it didn’t really surprise me. Especially as I learnt that he knew Picasso…This though was a retrospective of his work at the Beaubourg. Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) was a precursor of a cross-cultural style of painting, infusing Western modernism with African and Caribbean symbolism. He must have been one of the very rare artists who was in contact with all the movements of his time …and all those that I follow. Cubism, surrealism, CoBrA…but he never lost sight of the world around him and took on the struggle to paint the drama of his own country, Cuba. The above photo plunges us at once into the exhibition. Was he an attractive man? I think there are later photos which make him look less brutal….but in my book,
After 25 years as a museum, it was time to renovate the Picasso site. The « Hotel » as we call it, has quite a history. It is probably, as Bruno Foucart wrote in 1985, (he is an art historian of 19th century architecture) “the grandest, most extraordinary, if not the most extravagant, of the Parisian houses of the 17th century”. Hotel Salé The Main stair case Another coming down "Picasso" would have liked these lights The building has seen many occupants come and go over the centuries. However, paradoxically, before the place was entrusted to the museum, it was rarely “inhabited”, but instead leased out to various private individuals, prestigious hosts and institutions. And so it became the Picasso museum. The renovations began in 2009 and quite obviously went well over budget and should have opened before the holidays started this year. The political arguments too had to be contended with not to mention the changes in Directors and the big question bei
The exhibition season is very full between January and the French holiday period. I make less and less effort to go and see the « block-busters » and there are some museums which are not easy to get around. The Jacquemart André is one of them. The rooms are so small and when a couple of groups move in, it is virtually impossible to see a picture or move at all. Still I was interested to go and see the Alicia Koplowitz collection. Now I come to think of it, there have been quite a few private collections shown to the public since the end of last year. Naturally I knew nothing about this woman. Alicia Koplowitz is very well known in her home country, Spain. Thanks to her company, the Capital Omega Group a comprehensive financial services company , she has become an important collect er Alicia is is a Spanish business magnate. When her father died, she and her sister inherited Construcciones y Contratas, S.A. (CYCSA), a company founded by her father. She sold her part of the comp
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