PLUS 2,25

source: robvanleijsennl

HEAD Genève – workshop led by Konstantin Grcic. A collective installation by first year Master students Spaces & Communication

Plus 2,25 is a reviewed proposition of the exhibition ‘Black2’ by Konstantin Grcic. His exhibition, programmed in the Swiss institute in Rome, included only design objects which were black and rectangular. For the workshop we worked with the same amount of design objects, translated into black cubes.
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source: headhesgech

Plus 2,25 is a collective installation by first year Master students Spaces & Communication, a reviewed proposition of the exhibition ‘Black2′ by Konstantin Grcic, made in a 24h workshop led by the designer.

Day for Night focuses on the concept and forms of display as an authorship statement, and more specifically on Konstantin Grcic’s Black2 (Black and Square) show at the Swiss Institute, Rome, 2010-11. Departing from a selected range of design historical display, from a selection of Grcic’s curating experience we will focus on Black2, his last curated show. During this short workshop, through the question of the nature of design display as an autonomous concept, we examined the possibilities of displaying design today. What statement does Black2 articulate ? What kind of commitment does it require ? And also, maybe, what kind of an ideal world of fantasy does it suggest ? This workshop gave an opportunity to question the designer production regarding his interest in popular material as a resource as well as a result. From a selection of objects from Black2, reproduced for the occasion in black foam board, the outcome of the workshop was to create two successive displays.
With: Samuele Anzellotti, Nicolas Baudillon, Laure Bretagnolle, Justina Bryl, Marguerite Cordelle, Mildred Dandelot, Mathieu Guilbaud, Mark Lembo, Haiya Liu, Rob Van Leijsen, Manon Thomas.
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source: raphaellemueller

Raphaëlle Mueller is an independent photographer and artist based in Geneva, working since 2009 in the field of art and design. She considers that photographing art or design works requires an understanding of the artwork’s particularities and of their perception in space.

She studied photography, art and new technologies at the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design (HEAD) of Geneva and at the Zürcher Horchschule der Künste (ZHDK), where she hold a bachelor degree in 2007, a postgraduate degree in 2009 and a CAS (Certificate of Advanced Studies) in 2013.
Raphaëlle Mueller est une photographe et artiste basée sur Genève qui travaille en tant qu’indépendante depuis 2009, plus spécifiquement dans les champs de l’art et du design. Elle considère que la photographie de pièces d’art ou de design, de performances ou d’espaces d’art requiert une compréhension spécifiques des particularités de ces pièces ainsi que de leur perception dans l’espace.
Elle a étudié la photographie, l’art et les nouveaux médias au sein de la Haute Ecole d’art et de Design (HEAD) de Genève ainsi qu’à la Zürcher Horchschule der Künste (ZHDK) et y obtient un bachelor en 2007, un diplôme postrgrade en 2009 et un CAS (Certificate of Advanced Studies) en 2013.
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source: artandeducationnet

Located in the heart of Geneva, HEAD (Haute école d’art et de design – Geneva University of Art and Design) is one of the most important training institution in art and design in Switzerland. It offers a wide range of high level Bachelor and Master courses in Visual Arts, Cinema, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Fashion and Accessory Design and Media Design.

Atelier projects, courses, seminars, commissioned work, workshops led by international artists and designers, contribute to the dynamics of a teaching environment conceived as a space for freedom and personal and social responsibility. Aesthetic practices combined with theoretical teaching aim as much the acquisition of knowledge as the practice of plural intellectual thinking.
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source: konstantin-grcic

Konstantin Grcic (*1965) was trained as a cabinet maker at The John Makepeace School (Dorset, England) before studying Design at the Royal College of Art in London. Since setting up his own practice Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID) in Munich in 1991, he has developed furniture, products and lighting for some of the leading companies in the design field. Amongst his renowned clients are Authentics, BD Ediciones, ClassiCon, Flos, Magis, Mattiazzi, Muji, Nespresso, Plank, Serafino Zani, Thomas-Rosenthal and Vitra. For Galerie kreo in Paris, he has created a number of limited edition pieces since 2004. Many of his products have received international design awards such as the prestigious Compasso d`Oro for his MAYDAY lamp (Flos) in 2001 and the MYTO chair (Plank) in 2011. Work by Konstantin Grcic forms part of the permanent collections of the world´s most important design museums (a.o. MoMA/New York, Centre Georges Pompidou/Paris).
Most recently Konstantin Grcic has curated a number of significant design exhibitions such as DESIGN-REAL for The Serpentine Gallery, London (2009), COMFORT for the St.Etienne Design Biennale (2010) and BLACK2 for the Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2010). In 2012 he was responsible for the exhibition design of the German Pavillon at the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice. Solo exhibitions of his work have been shown at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, 2006), Haus der Kunst (Munich, 2006) and The Art Institute of Chicago (2009). The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) appointed Konstantin Grcic “Royal Designer for Industry”, in 2010 he was fellow at Villa Massimo in Rome. Design Miami/ arwarded him the title “2010 Designer of the Year”.

Konstantin Grcic defines function in human terms, combining formal strictness with considerable mental acuity and humour. Each of his products is characterized by a careful research into the history of design and architecture and his passion for technology and materials. Known for pared-down pieces, Grcic is often called a minimalist but the designer himself prefers to speak of simplicity.