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13.9.2014—30.11.2014
MAK Geymüllerschlössel
Before the backdrop of this venues changeful history leading all the way up to its present-day use as a museum branch, the MAK DESIGN SALON sets the stage for a dialog that encompasses multiple eras in order to highlight thematic relationships between past and present while also opening up new perspectives. The catalysts are provided by design interventions that temporarily transform this uniquely furnished Biedermeier and Empire-style atmosphere of study into a laboratory of the new. The interventions undertaken thus far, by London-based Cypriot Michael Anastassiades (Time and Again, 2012) and Italys Studio Formafantasma (The Stranger Within, 2013), have given rise to new contexts within which to encounter both the historical and the contemporary objects, which have to assert themselves differently at the Geymüllerschlössel than they would in a typical white cube.
This years contribution Back in 5 min by Paris-based designer Robert Stadler plays on the easy transformability of the Biedermeier interior by means of light pieces of furniture, whichdepending on the situation at handcan be grouped into functional islands to permit uses such as eating, reading or music-making in one and the same room. In doing so, Stadler reinterprets the simple furniture typologies of traditional rustic roomsas suggested by this former rural summer villato create object groups consisting of working furniture such as stools and benches that contrast with this villas fundamentally bourgeois and opulent leisure idyll. This includes using surfaces and patterns in keeping with the Biedermeier-era material and decorative approach. In the process, deconstructive mechanisms give rise to a type of in-between phenomenonas if the space had just reconfigured itself.
Subtle spatial effects and the shifting of quotations are defining elements in Stadlers oeuvre, which extends over multiple artistic fieldswhether as a performance for the Centre Pompidou (Tephra formations play, 2013) or as façade and urban furniture designs for the Ensemble Poirel in Nancy (Traits dunion, 2013). Stadler has also given Michael Thonets Chair No. 14 (Thonet Brothers, 1859, reissued as Modell No. 214) an alter ego (Chair 107, 2011). In his projects, Stadlerwho was recently awarded the French Prix Liliane Bettencourt Pour lIntelligence de la Maingoes beyond the categories of art, artisanship, and design to take up a tradition from his Viennese roots, to which he pays an artistic visit at the MAK DESIGN SALON with Back in 5 min following a long absence that has included stops in Milan, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro.
Curator Thomas Geisler, MAK Curator Design
Dates:
Sun, 21.9., 3 p.m.
Sun, 12.10., 3 p.m.
Sun, 23.11., 11 a.m. in the context of the VIENNA ART WEEK
Sun, 30.11., 3 p.m.
A matinee in the context of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK (26 September 5 October 2014).
Designer Robert Stadler, Londonbased author and curator Emily King, and Jana Scholze, Curator of Contemporary Furniture and Product Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in conversation with Thomas Geisler, curator, MAK Design Collection
Studio Formafantassma. The Stranger Within
(14.9.1.12.2013)
MAK DESIGN SALON #01
Michael Anastassiades. Time & Again
(12.5.25.11.2012)
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This years contribution Back in 5 min by Paris-based designer Robert Stadler plays on the easy transformability of the Biedermeier interior by means of light pieces of furniture, whichdepending on the situation at handcan be grouped into functional islands to permit uses such as eating, reading or music-making in one and the same room. In doing so, Stadler reinterprets the simple furniture typologies of traditional rustic roomsas suggested by this former rural summer villato create object groups consisting of working furniture such as stools and benches that contrast with this villas fundamentally bourgeois and opulent leisure idyll. This includes using surfaces and patterns in keeping with the Biedermeier-era material and decorative approach. In the process, deconstructive mechanisms give rise to a type of in-between phenomenonas if the space had just reconfigured itself.
Subtle spatial effects and the shifting of quotations are defining elements in Stadlers oeuvre, which extends over multiple artistic fieldswhether as a performance for the Centre Pompidou (Tephra formations play, 2013) or as façade and urban furniture designs for the Ensemble Poirel in Nancy (Traits dunion, 2013). Stadler has also given Michael Thonets Chair No. 14 (Thonet Brothers, 1859, reissued as Modell No. 214) an alter ego (Chair 107, 2011). In his projects, Stadlerwho was recently awarded the French Prix Liliane Bettencourt Pour lIntelligence de la Maingoes beyond the categories of art, artisanship, and design to take up a tradition from his Viennese roots, to which he pays an artistic visit at the MAK DESIGN SALON with Back in 5 min following a long absence that has included stops in Milan, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro.
Curator Thomas Geisler, MAK Curator Design
Public Program for the Exhibition
The intervention Back in 5 min by Robert Stadler provides the occasion and content for a series of events that link the historical with the present and breathe new life into the salon format as context for discourse.Design Tours
Curator-guided tours with Thomas Geisler, Curator, MAK Design CollectionDates:
Sun, 21.9., 3 p.m.
Sun, 12.10., 3 p.m.
Sun, 23.11., 11 a.m. in the context of the VIENNA ART WEEK
Sun, 30.11., 3 p.m.
MAK Design Salon Back in 5 min
Sun, 28.9.2014, 11 a.m.A matinee in the context of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK (26 September 5 October 2014).
Designer Robert Stadler, Londonbased author and curator Emily King, and Jana Scholze, Curator of Contemporary Furniture and Product Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in conversation with Thomas Geisler, curator, MAK Design Collection
Previous exhibitions of the series MAK DESIGN SALON
MAK DESIGN SALON #02Studio Formafantassma. The Stranger Within
(14.9.1.12.2013)
MAK DESIGN SALON #01
Michael Anastassiades. Time & Again
(12.5.25.11.2012)
Kindly supported by
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Robert Stadler, Fantome, floor patterns from the Geymüllerschlössel digitally edited for textile printing in collaboration with Backhausen, 2014
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In the front: Robert Stadler, Fantome, floor patterns from the Geymüllerschlössel digitally edited for textile printing in collaboration with Backhausen, 2014. Robert Stadler, 24h Linda clock, 2005
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Robert Stadler, Fantome, floor patterns from the Geymüllerschlössel digitally edited for textile printing in collaboration with Backhausen, 2014
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In the middle: Robert Stadler, Cora, Dora and Aymeric suite of furniture, 2014, Robert Stadler, Fantome, floor patterns from the Geymüllerschlössel digitally edited for textile printing in collaboration with Backhausen, 2014
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Robert Stadler, Fantome, floor patterns from the Geymüllerschlössel digitally edited for textile printing in collaboration with Backhausen, 2014
Exhibition View
Robert Stadler, Fantome, floor patterns from the Geymüllerschlössel digitally edited for textile printing in collaboration with Backhausen, 2014
Exhibition View
Robert Stadler, Fantome, floor patterns from the Geymüllerschlössel digitally edited for textile printing in collaboration with Backhausen, 2014. Robert Stadler, Dora bench, 2014
Exhibition View
Robert Stadler, Fantome, floor patterns from the Geymüllerschlössel digitally edited for textile printing in collaboration with Backhausen, 2014. Robert Stadler, Aymeric stool, 2014