French designer Ora ïto has lately been engaged on a collection of public transport initiatives in France, from the transformation of the full of life city hub of Place Castellane in Marseille to a progressive new tram line in Good. Whether or not engaged on mobility, product or spatial design, for the previous 25 years, an ‘alphabet’ rooted in modernism and postmodernism that he calls ‘Grammatology’ has at all times been foundational. Now, he has given kind to this language for the primary time by means of a collection of up to date sculptures, offered in a two-part exhibition in two personally significant areas within the south of France.
ïto sat beneath one in all his works on present at Galerie Podgorny
(Picture credit score: Galerie Podgorny)
Sketched then digitally designed and manufactured in aluminium and resin, the ‘Grammatology’ objects are like aerodynamic buttons with clean, curved edges. ‘The depth of the road creates a vibration of vitality,’ he explains – the objects’ shiny, optimistic kinds seem to drift, seemingly defying gravity. As a designer normally certain by constraints of each day life, ïto delights in working with a scarcity of perform too, crafting these deconstructed constructing blocks to the graphic interface by means of which we expertise the worldwide, dynamic, technological and ergonomic world.
Works from ‘Grammatology Half 1’
(Picture credit score: Galerie Podgorny)
Works from ‘Grammatology Half 1’
(Picture credit score: Galerie Podgorny)
Their lineage again to the abstraction and functionalism of the twentieth century might be understood by means of the contexts by which they’re offered. Firstly, at Podgorny gallery in St-Paul de Vence, the place ïto’s grandfather owned the Galerie Frédéric Gollong. It was right here that he grew to become well-acquainted with the artwork of Alexander Calder and Joan Miró, immediately mirrored within the rotative and swooping curves of the paintings’s edges. And now, at Galerie Kolektiv, on the third flooring ‘Road’ of the Cité Radieuse in Marseille, the place the works comply with the first color scheme and the ‘Modular’ measurements upon which Le Corbusier based mostly the structure.
Grammatology, Half II, offered on the Galerie Kolektiv Cité Radieuse
(Picture credit score: Stéphane ABOUDARAM – WE ARE CONTENT(S))
Grammatology, Half II, offered on the Galerie Kolektiv Cité Radieuse
(Picture credit score: Stéphane ABOUDARAM – WE ARE CONTENT(S))
Marseille is the town the place ïto grew up and as a designer he has turn into synonymous with the Cité Radieuse after founding the Marseille Modulor (MAMO) gallery on its rooftop in 2013. His work with artists resembling Daniel Buren, Dan Graham and Felice Varini has developed the repute of the constructing as an exploratory vacation spot for up to date artwork, design and tradition: ‘Type follows perform, but generally kind can comply with your concepts,’ he says.
Grammatology, Half I, was on present on the Galerie Podgorny in Saint Paul-de-Vence from 15 Could to fifteen July. Grammatology, Half II, offered on the Galerie Kolektiv Cité Radieuse within the Unité d’Habitation Le Corbusier in Marseille from 18 July to 24 August
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Grammatology, Half II, offered on the Galerie Kolektiv Cité Radieuse within the Unité d’Habitation Le Corbusier in Marseille
(Picture credit score: Stéphane ABOUDARAM – WE ARE CONTENT(S))
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