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Maarten Van Severen Chair MVSC01 | Erwan Bouroullec, Ronan Bouroullec | 9789490800543

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Erwan Bouroullec

Maarten Van Severen Chair MVSC01

Author:Erwan Bouroullec, Ronan Bouroullec

Publisher:Art Paper Editions

ISBN: 9789490800543

  • Paperback
  • 152 Pages
  • Oct 20, 2016

The Maarten Van Severen Chair (MVSC) was founded in 2015 by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at University College Ghent and the Maarten Van Severen Foundation with the aim of conveying the relevance and significance of his work for today’s designers. Every year a leading designer, whose work has an affinity with the work of Maarten Van Severen, will give a lecture and a masterclass. He or she will reflect on the common ground between their work and that of Maarten van Severen and on the qualities of his work in light of the current design culture.

Erwan Bouroullec, one half of the design team of brothers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, was the first to hold the chair in 2015. He gave a master class and two lectures, which resulted in this richly illustrated first edition of the MVSC cahier. Not only does the diminutive book include extracts from his lectures, but it also offers fascinating documentation of the student projects produced during the workshop he supervised.

Starting from a material of choice and no other parameter, goal or well defined result, the students played, -some struggled-, but in the end they all had a lot of fun. Being in the moment, fully intuitive and working with whatever is available was the motto. Because the essence of the workshop was rather the process than any kind of final product, Erwan and his birds, -that is the name he gave his students-, decided to continue the workshop until the summer. The result is a fascinating collection of things, created out of the wild, which is presented at the Biennale Interieur 2016.

The Maarten Van Severen Chair (MVSC) was founded in 2015 by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at University College Ghent and the Maarten Van Severen Foundation with the aim of conveying the relevance and significance of his work for today’s designers. Every year a leading designer, whose work has an affinity with the work of Maarten Van Severen, will give a lecture and a masterclass. He or she will reflect on the common ground between their work and that of Maarten van Severen and on the qualities of his work in light of the current design culture.

Erwan Bouroullec, one half of the design team of brothers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, was the first to hold the chair in 2015. He gave a master class and two lectures, which resulted in this richly illustrated first edition of the MVSC cahier. Not only does the diminutive book include extracts from his lectures, but it also offers fascinating documentation of the student projects produced during the workshop he supervised.

Starting from a material of choice and no other parameter, goal or well defined result, the students played, -some struggled-, but in the end they all had a lot of fun. Being in the moment, fully intuitive and working with whatever is available was the motto. Because the essence of the workshop was rather the process than any kind of final product, Erwan and his birds, -that is the name he gave his students-, decided to continue the workshop until the summer. The result is a fascinating collection of things, created out of the wild, which is presented at the Biennale Interieur 2016.

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