Vitra Design Museum present 'album'
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Album exhibition
21/02/2012 - The Vitra design museum gallery, Weil am Rhein, presents 'album', an exhibition featuring the work of french designers ronan + erwan bouroullec.
The travelling exposition which first made its debut at l’arc en rêve centre d’architecture in bordeaux, france celebrates the duo's practice marking important steps in their working process through an extensive display of drawings, models, plans and photographs pulled from their archive.
The means in which the pieces on show are displayed is reminiscent of a laboratory or museum of natural sciences, much like fieldwork, a chronicle of ronan and erwan's design practice, giving an alternative look at their work and the details behind their products.
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'album' shows us how the design industry today represents a complex exercise, within which a wide series of technical problems are sought to be resolved.
Even in our age of computers, the bouroullec's express to us the importance of design as an indispensable work tool, putting pen to paper, allowing for more a spontaneous and partly unexpected development of language of forms. The exhibition brings to mind the meaning drawing has always had for the creation of objects from leondardo da vinci to le corbusier.
Mateo Kries, director of the Vitra Design Museum : “On one hand, the drawings of the Bouroullecs are works of independent artistic value, whose tender, often crosshatched and at times almost naïve-seeming pictorial motifs create their own unique world of forms. On the other hand, they act as important steps within the design process to gradually move toward the ultimate proposal of a new object. The designers proceed like natural scientists who investigate and continually retest the forms of their own array of ideas with a spirit of curiosity. Inspired by this approach, the exhibition stages the objects in a manner reminiscent of a natural history museum or a laboratory.
The exhibition album shows that the work of today’s designers is a complex process in which numerous structural and technical problems must be solved. Yet even in the age of computers, drawing remains an indispensable tool for many designers, as it makes it possible to capture spontaneous, sometimes unexpected design ideas on paper and to develop an individual formal language. In so doing, the exhibition emphasises the significance drawing has always had for the conception of objects – from da Vinci to Le Corbusier. The very word “design” can be traced back to the Italian term “disegno”, which was used in the Renaissance to refer to the sketching out of a pictorial motif.”
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