30.1.2013—5.5.2013
MAK Furniture Study Collection
In STILL LIFE industrial designer Marco Dessí shows a comprehensive survey of projects that have been realized to date alongside a series of new prototypes that will be presented to the public for the very first time. Reflecting on the exhibition title, Dessí defines STILL LIFE as a contemplative snapshot that provides the contextual, emblematic, and aesthetic framework  for the selection and grouping of his works and the respective reference materials. Exhibition display and individual objects merge into an atmospheric picture  that, both in its totality and in detail, offers an unusual and personal approach to Marco Dessí’s attitude toward design.

Marco Dessí (born in Meran, Italy in 1976) presents what is meanwhile the fourth position in the context of the exhibition series. After a technical apprenticeship, Dessí studied industrial design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where already his student projects brought him international attention. In 2007 he founded his own design studio. As a designer, he is interested in a unique symbiosis of function, construction, and aesthetics. His working method— whether manual or industrial—postulates a permanent understanding of and proximity to the production process.

Curator Marlies Wirth

www.marcodessi.com


MAK on Display
Inspired by the reinstallation of the VIENNA 1900. Viennese Arts and Crafts, 1890–1938 section of the MAK Permanent Collection, Marco Dessí reinterpreted the Wiener Werkstätte’s Salon Cabinet for a Reception Salon by Dagobert Peche. The intervention Marco Dessí: Dagobert Peche Revisited, 1913/2012 occupies a prominent location at Wien Mitte – The Mall, thus opening up a “display window” of sorts on the MAK.
 

EXHIBITION SERIES
APPLIED ARTS. NOW

A cooperation between MAK and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna

The exhibition series APPLIED ARTS. NOW intends to provide a platform for contemporary forms of applied arts in order to generate greater visibility for especially interesting positions taken by graduates from the University of Applied Arts living and working in Austria.

 

EXHIBITIONS
APPLIED ARTS. NOW


Patrycja Domanska. Stimuli
19 Oct 2016 - 14 May 2017
Kay Walkowiak. Forms in Time
20 Apr – 2 Oct 2016
Alfredo Barsuglia. Cabinet
4 Mar – 10 May 2015

Valentin Ruhry. Grand Central
8 Oct 2014 – 8 Feb 2015
soma Architecture
13 May – 14 Sept 2014
Lisa Truttmann. My Stage is Your Domain
19 Jun – 6 Oct 2013
Marco Dessí. Still Life
30 Jan – 5 May 2013
taliaYsebastian. The Committee of Sleep
3 Oct 2012 – 6 Jan 2013
Stiefel & Company Architects. Faux Terrains
23 May – 16 Sep 2012
Patrick Rampelotto. Adventures in Foam
25 Jan – 6 May 2012