SUMMER EXHIBITION 2016
ORIGINS OF A WORK – AUTHENTICITY AND TRANSFORMATION IN DESIGN
JULY 1ST – SEPT 1ST
We are living in a time in which different cultural traditions meet to fuse or collide, and where the lack of trustworthy role models leaves a vacuum that waits to be filled.
The subsequent need for individual or social identity is embodied in art as well as in design. There the hype surrounding celebrities is ebbing away while democratic concepts are growing.
Nevertheless questions remain about what is authentic or original, and to what extent our manmade environment is influenced by reproduction, imitation or translation.
This exhibition examines the phenomenon with a special view to design, in which the present debate focuses on issues of copyrights, prototyping and redesign.
It demonstrates nature as a principle source of inspiration, shows examples of industrial and post-industrial production, and challenges our fascination for the genius and the original.
