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Mudac, ''A Chair and You''

Lausanne

The set-up of the exhibition space has just finished and, awaiting the imminent opening to the public, the lights are ready to interact with the walls that delimit the area and with the three types of bobbinet tulle used to furnish it.The designers of the exhibition chose them to create many semi-transparent containers ...
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... in which hundreds of examples of one of the most celebrated objects in contemporary design were suspended.The walls of the large display case in the foreground are made of grey BHO - Holo Scrim tulle, practically invisible when backlit, but very reactive to lighting and projections, while ...
... various partition walls were made of natural BLI - Libellula tulle, for example the ones on the left in this image.The presence of the chairs is emphasized by white parallelepipeds that elevate them along the exhibition path ...
... or inside the tulle displays, the one visible on the left is made of grey BHO - Holo Scrim.The light is diffused from above by means of a luminous ceiling, reflected along the base of the white walls of the perimeter or by spotlights ...
... which punctually illuminate the protagonists of the exhibition.The theatrical provenance of the extraordinary artistic staff ...
... who conceived and executed the installation can be felt throughout the entire exhibition.But it becomes unmistakable when one come across in a perspective …
... that clearly cites, reversing it in an astonishingly effective way for exposition purposes, a stage Black quadrature!The profile of the four inverted Portals looking over a RNV - Nevada made rear-illuminated Backing flat, filtered by a BOP - Opera tulle backdrop, is underlined by the lighting and is almost a summary quote ...
... of the scenographic minimalism that unequivocally characterizes Robert Wilson's installations, in which the refined use of lighting technology always plays a fundamental role.And where it is frequent the symbolic presence of actors and objects suspended in the air in silhouette or, on the contrary levitating in the dark, in this case ...
Structure and design
Robert Wilson
Scenography
Annick Lavallée-Benny
Light design
Marcello Lumaca
Scenographical workshops
Actoform
Atelier Devineau
Chairs
Collezione Thierry Barbier-Mueller (1960-2023)
Location
mudac - Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts
Period
28/10/2022 - 26/02/2023

Materials used in this production

BHO - Holo Scrim

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

BLI - Libellula

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

BOP - Opera

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

CAB - Sound Absorber

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

RNV - Nevada

Rear-projection films

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