Ron Arad
dal 6/4/2009 al 8/5/2009
Segnalato da
6/4/2009
Ron Arad
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
New Works. Grouped around a freestanding star of interconnected walls designed by Arad, the show will unveil a number of highly sophisticated experimental pieces, many only recently produced and on display for the first time.
Timothy Taylor Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new works by Ron Arad.
This marks the first show at the gallery since it announced sole representation of Arad in
the UK.
Grouped around a freestanding star of interconnected walls designed by Arad, the show
will unveil a number of highly sophisticated experimental pieces, many only recently
produced and on display for the first time.
Arad’s re-invention of the chair is constantly evolving; the Thumbprint, composed of
multiple bronze rods, and the Rod Gomli, of stainless steel rods, are jewel-like objects
that shimmer as the light shifts, revealing subtle gradations of colour. The first in editions
of six, they are imposing yet intricate pieces – their seductive contours inviting the viewer
to touch, explore and climb into the curved centres they create.
In addition to the Thumbprint, there will be a series of three unique Bodyguards. Crafted
from inflated aerospace aluminium, cut individually, highly polished and tinted, they will
be shown alongside four new and unique Drunk Bodyguards. These remarkable
sculptural pieces sway woozily on a single tangent point, balancing, poised in mid-air,
reacting to the lightest of touches. They appear to be weightless. Paradoxically this
weightlessness is the result of extreme heaviness.
Exploring similar paradoxes, the woven pieces, Gomlis and Johnny Wasps, are
deceptively strong yet light in structure. Composite techno-threads are woven around
sacrificial moulds. Colourful, tribal and dotted with latticed holes, they hold the body as if
in an airy web.
Arad’s most recent and critically acclaimed solo show, No Discipline, is currently on view
at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, until 16 March 2009, displaying over 100 pieces in a
specially created scenography. Arad will open a re-defined version of this exhibition at
the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 2 August - 19 October 2009 before
reconfiguring it in turn for the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in the autumn of 2010.
Arad was born in Tel Aviv in 1951 and studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
in Jerusalem and at the Architectural Association in London. He was appointed Professor
of Product Design at the Royal College of Art in London in 1997. Before and After Now, a
major retrospective of Arad’s work was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in
2000, a year after the publication of a monograph by Deyan Sudjic, now Director of
London’s Design Museum. In 2004 Ron Arad Talks To Matthew Collings was published
by Phaidon. Arad’s Architectural projects include the Maserati headquarters showroom in
Modena, Italy, and Y’s fashion store for Yohji Yamamoto in Tokyo, Japan, which opened
in 2003. In 2004 he began work on the design of Magis’s headquarters in Treviso, Italy
and the Holon Design Museum in Israel, now completed. In the same year, he
participated in the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Image: Oh, the farmer & the cowman should be friends, 2008. Stainless and Corten steel 138 3/8 x 224 5/8 x 15 7/8 in. / 351 x 570 x 40 cm. Edition of 6
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Opening 7 April 2009 | 6-8pm
Timothy Taylor Gallery
21 Dering Street - London
Open 10-6pm Mon-Fri; 10-1pm Sat
Free admission