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Thursday, 30 March 2006 | Levent OZLER
RLD République Libre du Design
5th April to 4th May 2006
On the occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2006 event, the French Cultural Centre of Milan presents the RLD République Libre du Design, an ideological State of research going across all the Continents and all the Countries, with the aim to unite all those people who want to go beyond the industrial design (in the strict sense of the word) in order to investigate new possible territories for design.
This Exhibition wants to explore these new territories destined to develop themselves and to become an integral part of the design art in the next years.
Today the term "design" represents a group of professions, some of which completely new: graphic design, web design, food design, fashion design, sound design, garden design, etc.
The mapping of design is becoming wider and wider.
The RLD République Libre du Design© wants to draw a map of the new territories of this discipline; a map which is however neither exhaustive (since it is impossible) nor complete (since it is always in progress).
Editor : Federica Sala
Scientific advice : Marie-Laure Jousset (Centre Pompidou)
5th April to 4th May 2006
le Centre Culturel Français de Milan, corso Magenta 63, Milano
Tel. *39024859191
fax. +390248591952
http://www.lecentreculturelfrancaisdemilan.it
Inauguration: on Thurday 6th April, 6.00 p.m. - 11.30 p.m.
Within the Salone del Mobile event
Visiting hours: 10.00 a.m.- 8.00 p.m every day from 5th April to 9th April
The gallery art of the French Cultural Centre in Milan will show the following five installations
Domestic/Collection Vinyl "Arborescence", created by F. Azambourg
The young French editors Stéphane Arriubergé, Christine Montard and Massimiliano Iorio, have created a new system of graphic application to decoration by the original means of the vinyl. Domestic asked François Azambourg to create a special and exclusive "Arborescence" installation for the art gallery of the French cultural centre.
The arborescence of François Azambourg allows us to perceive the decorative dimension of this material and its great deforming potentiality. His project is a real "decorative cracker", allowing the final user to take over the original drawing and to develop it and deform it at pleasure, so as to create an arborescence.
Domestic has been selected for the Elle Deco International Design Award 2006, which will be given during the Salone del Mobile event.
Arik Levy design/installation "organ"
This designer has been carrying out for many years not only an industrial design production, but also a research on light and its forms, so that he created several luminous installations as well as prototypes and limited editions of great sensitivity and artistic value. For the gallery art of the French Cultural Centre, Arik Lévy has designed the "Organ" installation, composed by a group of luminous elements of different heights and forms all sharing a matrix of coherence. The installation is entirely made in Corian.
Ensci, Ecole nationale supérieure de création industrielle (Le jardin artificiel)
The students of the ENSCI have been called up to work on the theme of the artificial garden. This theme has been developed in a workshop directed by the designer Romain Cuvellier, who has investigated into the different aspects of both the garden and the artificiality in relation to our routine life. Six projects have been selected as follows:
- « Robin » by Denis Pellerin
A prosthesis of a leaf, more real than the natural one. This project will be produced by Magis.
- « La mauvaise herbe » by Lucie Dorel and Cesare Delaini
A herb which wants to upset the established order.... we make it vanish but it is always coming back obsessively
-« Rézo », by Caroline Colin and Julie Delmas
A set of light in a net of roots: a fantasy evolution between nature and man.
- « Forêt d'intérieur » by Yoann Ollivier and Verena Augustin
Plant + pot = Forest.
- « Kaduc » by Denis Pellerin
Imitation and control of the season cycle: in Autumn, leaves are falling, in Spring, leaves are taking again their volume.
- « Ivy, la jungle électrique » by Oriane Dambrune and Marion Excoffon
An electric wire turns into a rambling plant along the wall.
Olfactory and interactive activity by OlfaCom complete the installation of Ensci.
Olivier Peyricot/"Plateaux Vivre Nu"
Olivier Peyricot relates himself to the universe surrounding him in a critical and humorous way.
Particularly, his reflections brought him to create some installations as to the criticism of design (see the projects « Vigilhome » for the MoMa and « Ground01 » for the Pompidou Centre in Paris).
Olivier Peyricot has created for the RLD a provocatory and programmatic installation aiming to the human winnig back of our own action field; to this purpose, the first step is to regain possession of our house by means of the nudism.
This installation combines both graphics and materiality, and is made in Corian
Electronic Shadow/Camera Obscura
We are all inclined to forget that photography and, in a wider sense, the cinema and the video arts, are strictly linked to the physical space. Indeed the dark room the "camera obcura" which has been described during Renaissance by Giovanni Battista della Porta and successively by Leonardo da Vinci, is a room composed by four walls, a floor and a ceiling and it is exposed to the light only by a tiny orifice which projected a reflex of the reality on one of the walls. In time, the dark room became miniaturized and we do not realize that metaphor is coming from one room of the house.
By means of the contemporary technology, Electronic Shadow uses contemporary high tech in order to give back to image its original context, by extracting it from its own frame or screen to make it habitable.
Camera Obscura is an interactive installation showing a little habitation room with a low interactive table at the centre of it. All the walls tend to change on the thread of images, passing from contemporary architectural habitats to natural environments, between dream and reality. Everything is controlled by an intuitive and sensorial interface by means of the low little table. It proposes a new approach to poetic domotics in which domestic space, image and light blend to offer a new vision because of the continually changing space, following the mood of its own tenant.
The RLD République Libre du Design© Exhibition goes on until the 4th may with the following visiting hours :
9.00 a.m -7.00 p.m from Monday to Friday
3.00 p.m.- 7.00 p.m on Saturday (closing on Sunday and holidays, 13th, 14th, 15th and 24th April)
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