Memphis : plastic field / edited by Contance Rubini.
[Paris] : Editions Norma, [2019]
©2019
216 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plan, portraits ; 30 cm.
En 1981, le designer italien Ettore Sottsass, sorti de l'aventure du studio Alchymia, fédère autour de lui un collectif de jeunes architectes et designers afin de faire voler en éclats les codes de la modernité. Son aura attire des créateurs de premier plan tels qu Andrea Branzi, Michael Graves, Shiro Kuramata, Alessandro Mendini ou Marco Zanuso. La première exposition de Memphis à Milan, en 1981, fait l'effet d'une bombe dans le paysage européen du design, et renouvelle radicalement le langage des formes et des couleurs. Le groupe appréhende l'objet par son sens et sa présence, quittant le champ de la seule fonctionnalité pour embrasser, porté par une liberté sans précédent, celui de la communication visuelle. Grâce au soutien d'Ernesto Gismondi, le président d'Artemide, les huit collections que produit Memphis jusqu'en 1988 connaissent un succès retentissant à l'échelle mondiale, avec des objets devenus des classiques, tels que la bibliothèque Carlton d'Ettore Sottsass, la chaise First de Michele De Lucchi ou la lampe Super de Martine Bedin. Ce livre revient, à l'occasion de l'exposition au madd-beordeaux (21 juin 2019- 6 janvier 2020), sur la genèse de ce mouvement qui a remis la culture démocratique au coeur du design et a réintégré avec un humour irrévérencieux dans ses codes l'ornement et la décoration.'
"Ettore Sottsass founded the Memphis Group in 1981, bringing together young architects around his strong personality. They dreamt of shattering the codes of modernity and rationalism; the culture they established was a vitalistic, instinctive reaction to the gentrification of design. Their first collection was exhibited in Milan. The exhibition, that opened on 18 September 1981, had the effect of a bomb in the European design scene. It radically renewed the language of shapes and colours that up until then was based on the sense and presence of the object, rather than on its function. Artists of all nationalities came together around Ettore Sottsass, including two Bordeaux artists Martine Bedin and Nathalie Du Pasquier. Together, they overturned the traditional principles of design, transforming a discipline that up until then had focused on production and rationality, to orientate it towards visual communication. They were filled with a sense of freedom that opened up a whole new scope of possibilities. ... By presenting this exhibition, madd-bordeaux continues the work inaugurated by Jacqueline du Pasquier, honorary curator of the museum, who in 1983 hosted in Bordeaux the first French exhibition devoted to the Memphis Group. Exhibiting Memphis today also allows us to show the present-day pertinence of this impetus towards freedom that gave centre stage to democratic culture and focused on the aspects that elitist designers despised, i.e. ornamentation and decoration, by also highlighting spontaneity, sensuality and humour. As stated by Paris Match in 1983: "After Memphis, nothing was ever the same again in the history of interior design". Bringing together over 160 iconic works designed between 1981 and 1988, Memphis Plastic Field highlights the irreverent and subversive spirit of all these young designers. As well as these masterpieces, about thirty vases produced in Murano are exhibited"--Publisher's description.
2376660270 (paperback)
9782376660279 (paperback)
Bedin, Martine 1957-
Branzi, Andrea 1938-
De Lucchi, Michele 1951-
Radice, Barbara 1943-
Sottsass, Ettore 1917-2007
Sowden, George J. 1942-
Memphis (Group) Exhibitions.
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Rubini, Constance, editor.
Musée des arts décoratifs et du design (Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France), host institution.
Memphis.
Memphis. English.
Memphis plastic field.
Plastic field
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