Ron Arad
05/09/2013.
Exhibition [MAD] Spain 05/09 - 09/11/13
metalocus, CANDELA OLIVA
metalocus, CANDELA OLIVA
Ron Arad, born in Israel but based in London since the 1970s, is an architect turned artist. Ten years after his last solo exhibition in Spain, Ivorypress Space hosts —as part of the annual architecture programme celebrated each autumn to mark the beginning of the season— a show that covers the latest works of this label-defying artist.
No bad colors workstation | Ron Arad, 2013 | Courtesy of Ivorypress and Ron Arad Associates.
Blame the tools | Ron Arad, 2013 | Courtesy of Ivorypress and Ron Arad Associates.
Free standing China | Ron Arad, 2009 | Courtesy of Ivorypress and Ron Arad Associates.
Pressed flower red | Ron Arad, 2013 | Courtesy of Ivorypress and Ron Arad Associates.
Small Southern Hemisphere | Ron Arad, 2006 | Courtesy of Ivorypress and Ron Arad Associates.
Small Southern Hemisphere | Ron Arad, 2006 | Courtesy of Ivorypress and Ron Arad Associates.
Still of the work 'Last Train' | Ron Arad, 2013 | Courtesy of Ivorypress and Ron Arad Associates.
Retrato de Ron Arad junto a la obra Last Train | Ron Arad, 2013 | Courtesy of Ivorypress and Ron Arad Associates.
Let's drop it, ok? | Ron Arad, 2013 | Courtesy of Ivorypress and Ron Arad Associates.
Reinventing The Wheel | Ron Arad, 1996 | Courtesy of Ivorypress and Ron Arad Associates.
Solid Rocker | Ron Arad, 2009 | Courtesy of Ivorypress and Ron Arad Associates.
Three Legs and a Table | Ron Arad, 1989 | Courtesy of Ivorypress and Ron Arad Associates.
Fragment of Design Museum Holon | Ron Arad, 2010 | Courtesy of Ivorypress and Ron Arad Associates.
Southern Hemisphere | Ron Arad, 2013 | Courtesy of Ivorypress and Ron Arad Associates.
The exhibition, which will run until 9 November, shows his singular perspective on architecture, design and the artistic object. With his interest in experimentation as a starting point, Ron Arad studies the expressive possibilities of different materials such as steel, aluminium, Corian and polyethylene.
His approach to form and structure has a freedom which is unlimited by links or borders. ‘The principle is that everything should be based on something that didn’t exist before’, says Arad. In line with this philosophy, the show includes some of his most iconic works along with industrially produced objects and several mock-ups and architectural projects.
Among Arad’s latest experiments that will be on show at Ivorypress Space, the Folly bench (2013) is particularly worthy of mention. Made by rotational moulding, Folly constitutes a large sculptural object composed of soft lines that endow it with great vitality. Movement, whether in his functional creations or in his purely aesthetic pieces, is always the main element of his work.
Also among the objects on show is Blame the Tools (2013), in line with Arad’s early works made of waste materials. Additionally, the selection includes the workstation No Bad Colours (2013), which is the source of another experimental line of inquiry, centred on technological components rather than on plastic or ergonomic value. The exhibition at Ivorypress Space provides the opportunity to observe the diversity of his work and to re-examine his creative production.
Text by Ivorypress.
Lugar: Ivorypress - C/ Comandante Zorita 48 (Madrid).
Fecha: From 5th September to 9th November 2013.
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Ron ARAD
Ron Arad received his training from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, in Jerusalem, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, in London. In 1981 he founded the One Off design and production studio with Caroline Thorman and in 1989 he created the Ron Arad architecture and design studio. He has also been Professor of Design Products at Royal College of Art in London from 1998 to 2009.
Ron Arad has exhibited his work at galleries and museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Centre Georges Pompidou in París, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York and Barbican Art Gallery in London.
Photography © John Davis.
