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Multi-Disciplined
The story of Ron Arad’s boundary-bending, rule-breaking approach to design is
told in a major retrospective of his work now open in the US
British
designer
ron Arad models, and 60 videos. Most of the objects
is the subject of a featured in the exhibition are displayed in
major retrospective at New York’s Museum a monumental Corten-and-stainless-steel
of Modern Art which opened last month structure specially designed by the artist
and runs until 19 October. his career has called Cage sans Frontières (Cage without
been a massively influential one, noted for Borders). the structure measures almost
an adventurous approach to form, structure, 40m long, spanning the entire length of the
technology, and materials in work that spans Museum’s international Council gallery, and
the disciplines of industrial design, sculpture, over 5m tall.
and architecture. this exhibition celebrates Arad’s spirit
israel-born Arad’s experimentation by combining industrial design, studio
with materials of all kinds – from steel, pieces, and architecture. it features Arad’s
aluminum, and bronze to thermoplastics, most celebrated historical pieces, including
crystals, fibre-optics, and LEDs – and his the rover Chair (1981), the Concrete stereo
radical reinterpretation of some of the most (1983), and the Bookworm bookshelves
established archetypes in furniture - from (1993), along with more recent products
armchairs and rocking chairs to desk lamps such as the PizzaKobra lamp (2008) and the
and chandeliers – have put him at the latest reincarnation of his Volumes series
forefront of contemporary design. (1998), the double armchair entitled Even
the exhibition, a version of which the Odd Balls? (2009).
was previously on show at the Pompidou Cage sans Frontières was specially
Centre in Paris, features around 140 works, designed by Arad, to house much of the
including design objects and architectural display. the structure is in the shape of a
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