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  • John M. Armleder
    Furniture Sculpture 21, 1981
    Collection of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©John M. Armleder / Photo Emmanuel Watteau
     

  • Maurizio Cattelan
    Sans Titre, 1997
    Collection of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©Maurizio Cattelan / Photo A.Morin
     

  • Sylvie Fleury. Bedroom Ensemble (Hommage à Claes Oldenburg), 1997
    Collection of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©D.R. / Photo Jens Ziehe, Berlin
     

  • Marti Guixé, Skip. Furniture Statement Chair : Stop
    Discrimination Of Cheap Furniture, 2004
    Collection of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©Marti Guixé / Photo Inga Knölke
     

  • Denis Santachiara
    Lit. Pisolo, 1997
    Collection of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©D.R. / Photo Emmanuel Watteau
     

  • Ralph Ball & Maxine Naylor
    Chaise. Greystack, 2003
    Collection of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©Design Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor / Photo David Spero
     

  • SUPERFLEX
    Copy Right (Colored Version), 2007
    Collection of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©D.R. / Courtesy Nils Staerck Contemporary Art, Copenhaghe
     

  • Barbara Visser
    Detitled, 2000. EAARS20001205/FT/S/bw
    Collection of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR

    Credit: ©Barbara Visser / Courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
     

From February 24, 2010
to May 24, 2010

Destroy Design
Contemporary Art and/or Design

Collection of the FRAC Nord- Pas de Calais 

http://www.fracnpdc.fr

The Destroy Design exhibition, featuring a selection of works on loan from France's Frac-Nord Pas de Calais (Regional Contemporary Art Collection), grants viewers an overview of the contemporary art and design realms. The shared focus of all the displays is on objects; mostly mundane, these are diverted, repurposed or at times manhandled.

 

As such, they become installations, manifestoes, photographs or sculptures. Artists and designers alike relate to certain design icons, repurposing them through parody and pastiche, but also by way of tributes.
Each of the two exhibition rooms will feature a short film on the works presented; conceived by the curatorial team, these will underscore the links among the displays. The showing at the mudac is the first leg of this exhibition's tour of Europe.

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  • Carton d'invitation
     

From October 21, 2009
to January 31, 2010

Swiss federal design Awards 2009

This spring, 17 works and projects by 19 designers were singled out within the framework of the Swiss Federal Design Competition. As on previous occasions, this year was distinguished by the strong representation by prize winners active in the field of graphic art. The other prize-winning works come from industrial design, fashion, textiles, jewellery, illustration or typography.

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2009 prize winners

Ahoulou Joy (1), Andersen Eric (2), Baechler Stéphanie (3), Ballmer Sophie (4), Benhadj Sami (5), Caputo Lovis (11a), Cerbaro Caro (6), Gilgen Philipp (7), Huber Gregor (8), Keshavjee David (9a), Kräutli Florian (10), Kueng Sarah (11b), Luder Natalie (12), Lusa Marie (13), Rendina Elena (14),Rihs Tatiana (15), Tavelli Julien (9b), Trofimova Maria (16), Voegeli Jonas (17)

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  • Adrienne Barman, ABCXYZ, 2007 © Editions La Joie de lire, Genève
     

  • Barman founeau voyageur : Adrienne Barman, Le Fourneau voyageur, 2007 © Editions La Joie de Lire, Genève
     

  • Bravo_moiettoi : Constanza Bravo et Caroline Laffon, Moi et toi, 2007 © Editions La Joie de lire, Genève
     

  • Erlbruch : Wolf Erlbruch, Le Canard, la mort et la tulipe, 2007 © Editions La Joie de lire, Genève
     

  • Marta et canard : Albertine, Le Retour de Marta, 2008 © Editions La Joie de lire, Genève
     

  • Marta titre : Albertine, Marta au pays des montgolfières, 2001 © Editions La Joie de lire, Genève
     

  • Milton fleur : Haydé Ardalan, Moi, Milton, 2007 © Editions La Joie de lire, Genève
     

  • Milton : Haydé Ardalan, Moi, Milton, 2007 © Editions La Joie de lire, Genève
     

  • Mushroom : Taro Miura, Des Jours pas comme les autres, 2006 © Editions La Joie de lire, Genève
     

  • R_S_Berner : Rotraut Susanne Berner, Inès, 2008 © Editions La Joie de lire, Genève
     

From October 21, 2009
to January 31, 2010

La joie de lire - publishers

Created at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in La Chaux-de-Fonds in the summer of 2008, the exhibition on the Genevan publisher of books for the young, La Joie de Lire, is being re-invented this autumn at the mudac.

The contemporary artist Christian Gonzenbach has dreamed up an amazing installation, La Grande Friche, inspired by albums and stories published by the publisher. In this space, the imaginary, make-believe world of the characters from the books becomes real. It is a place in which reading, relaxation and creation merge.

 

 

"In this scenography, which plays on the scale of the characters, décor and furniture elements, visitors are invited to lose themselves in a forest inhabited by wolves, bears and cats. They will be able to sit on a cardboard stump and immerse themselves in reading under the gaze of Marta the cow", Christian Gonzenbach explains.

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