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Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: The Nature in Lines

Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel shows a site-specific screen installation 17 Screens by French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Until 26 March 2016.

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Text by Heini Lehtinen

Museum installation 17 Screens by French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec is a translation of aquarelle drawings into a set of interrelated units made of glass, aluminium, ceramics and textile mesh. The surfaces of the screens create an interplay of light and colour that changes according to lighting conditions of the gallery space.

Curated by Meira Yagid-Haimovici, the site-specific screens translate the Bouroullec brothers’ view on nature and wide-open ocean horizons of their childhood in Bretagne, France, into thinking in line and drawing. The installation combines traditional crafts with advanced technologies, and incorporates sequences of modular elements made of ceramics, aluminium, glass, wooden sticks and textile held together by unique joints and hanging systems.

In their work, Paris-based Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec shift away from notions of aesthetics or technology towards more conceptual setting, and base their projects on macro-sociological research on living environments as informed by societal relations. They have worked together for two decades and collaborated with leading design companies such as Vitra, Artek, Magis, Alessi, Established & Sons, Axor Hansgrohe, Flos, Kvadrat, Kartell, Kettal, Iittala, Cappellini, Ligne Roset, Nanimarquina, Mattiazzi, Mutina and Hay. In recent years their work was showcased in two extensive exhibitions, at Le Centre Pompidou-Metz in 2011 and at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2013. •

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: 17 Screens at Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 31 October 2015–26 March 2016.

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Installation views. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: 17 Screens. Copyright Studio Bouroullec.    

  

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