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ron arad at the gallery giò marconi, an exhibition on lamps (lighting objects) and chairs (sitting objects) and new technologies ...................................
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not made by hand, not made in china an exhibition by ron arad at the gallery giò marconi, milan/italy, april 2000 objects produced in conjunction with the gallery mourmans, maastricht/netherland |
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| '...until now there were only four ways of making things - the process of making any object could be analyzed in one or more of the following : waste (chip, carve, turn, mill, chisel - the removal of excess material); mould (injection moulding, casting, blow-moulding - pouring material as a liquid to take the form of a vessel and then hardening); form (bending, pressing, hammering, folding,vacuum forming - flat material forced into a shape) and assemble (welding, gluing, bolting - joining parts together). now, here's a fifth way grow! all the objects in this collection were grown in a tank by computer controlled laser beams.' this is what the team which worked on the theme (ron arad, geoff crowther, yuki tango, elliott howes at ron arad associates) has spent a year developing, testing the limits of the technologies involved. all objects in the not made by hand, not made in china collection are produced in small limited editions and are considered works of art (even the price is virtuous). |
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