Designers from JAD...
For this year which marks the 20th anniversary of the Donation Albers-Honegger building, eac. is putting design in the spotlight with this second exhibition. For this new cycle re-reading its permanent collection, resident designers, artisans and visual artists at JAD, the Jardin des métiers d'Art et du Design in Sèvres, have been invited to explore the Albers-Honegger Collection and select works with which they feel a ‘resonance’.
Housed in what was the Sèvres ceramics school, JAD is a place for creation and encounters and it promotes the cross-fertilisation of artistic practices and transmission of know-how between art craftspeople and designers.
True to the universal spirit of Concrete Art, Sybil Albers and Gottfried Honegger did not restrict their collection to examples of purely geometric works. They broadened its scope by embracing how twentieth century art could branch out in the most striking, and sometimes surprising, ways - which has made their collection a work in its own right. They also assembled an exceptional collection of design pieces - in particular chairs (Alvar Aalto’s Paimio armchair, Marcel Breuer’s Wassily armchair, Frank O. Gehry’s Wiggle Side Chair, Verner Panton’s Panton chair, etc.) - which bear striking witness to the democratic concept of art championed by the founders of this movement, and to its collective and social implications.
The works they selected from the Albers-Honegger Collection, enriched by their own work, establish a dialogue that transcends the techniques and mediums used and the barriers of time and space. Invited to contribute to the exhibition, these artists may echo or create contrasts with their own practice.
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For this year which marks the 20th anniversary of the Donation Albers-Honegger building, eac. is putting design in the spotlight with this second exhibition. For this new cycle re-reading its permanent collection, resident designers, artisans and visual artists at JAD, the Jardin des métiers d'Art et du Design in Sèvres, have been invited to explore the Albers-Honegger Collection and select works with which they feel a ‘resonance’.
Housed in what was the Sèvres ceramics school, JAD is a place for creation and encounters and it promotes the cross-fertilisation of artistic practices and transmission of know-how between art craftspeople and designers.
True to the universal spirit of Concrete Art, Sybil Albers and Gottfried Honegger did not restrict their collection to examples of purely geometric works. They broadened its scope by embracing how twentieth century art could branch out in the most striking, and sometimes surprising, ways - which has made their collection a work in its own right. They also assembled an exceptional collection of design pieces - in particular chairs (Alvar Aalto’s Paimio armchair, Marcel Breuer’s Wassily armchair, Frank O. Gehry’s Wiggle Side Chair, Verner Panton’s Panton chair, etc.) - which bear striking witness to the democratic concept of art championed by the founders of this movement, and to its collective and social implications.
The works they selected from the Albers-Honegger Collection, enriched by their own work, establish a dialogue that transcends the techniques and mediums used and the barriers of time and space. Invited to contribute to the exhibition, these artists may echo or create contrasts with their own practice.
Artists on show
- Alf Schüler
- Alvar Aalto
- Aurélie Nemours
- Baptiste Meyniel
- Cédric Breisacher
- Christoph Haerle
- Claude Viallat
- Corinne Cobson
- Dadamaino
- Dan Flavin
- Donald Judd
- François Morellet
- Frank Gehry
- Gottfried Honegger
- Imi Knoebel
- Luce Couillet
- Man Ray
- Marcel Breuer
- Marie Levoyet
- Marta Bakowski
- Piero Dorazio
- Richard Serra
- Sanford Wurmfeld
- Sol LeWitt
- Verner Panton
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