Coming soon exhibitions
Carte blanche to Adrien Rovero Landscale
Opening Tuesday July 3rd,from 5PM
Formal part at 6:15PM
A graduate of ECAL, the School of Fine and Applied Arts of Lausanne, Adrien Rovero opened his studio in Renens in 2006. Working in the furniture and exhibition design sectors, he has developed an uncluttered and effective, often offbeat, style that draws inspiration from his close scrutiny of everyday life. He enjoys assembling and repurposing shapes, materials, references and uses.
Adrien Rovero has taken over the two ground-floor galleries with an exhibition entitled Landscale-a hybrid title word encompassing land, scale and landscape. In this show he questions the interplay of scales: fiddling with reduced or blown up sizes of his objects, he invites us to enter a disconcerting world of Gulliver and Lilliput.
Accompanying the exhibition is a 160-page bilingual (French/English) catalogue, published by the mudac, with texts by Alexandra Midal and Chantal Prod'Hom.
Akousmaflore, interactive installation
Credit: © Scenocosme [Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt]
Atelier Christian Lacroix Haute Couture, photogra¬ph 60x80 cm
Credit: © Anne de Vandière 2008
Be my Bug, interactive installation
Credit: © Yuan Li / HEAD
Rubiks Cube, Rubiks Cube for the Blind
Credit: © Konstantin Datz 2010
Lonely in the Crowd, interactive insallation
Credit: © Jan Huggenberg / ZHdK 2012
Artificial Electronic Skin. Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces (LSBI), EPFL.
Credit: Photograph © Alain Herzog.
Robot iCub. Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratoy (LASA), EPFL.
Credit: Photograph © Alain Herzog.
TOUCH. The World at your Fingertips
4 July 2012 - 13 January 2013 at the Museum of the Hand:
Opening on Tuesday, July 3: 6-7.30 pm at the mudac and from 7.30 at the Museum of the Hand
A two-part exhibition at the mudac and the Museum of the Hand.
The sense of touch may be pleasant, unsettling, repulsive, magical, annoying, instructive or painful, but it is always intimate. A tribute to the sense of touch, the exhibition immerses the visitor in the many forms of our sensory, and sometimes sensual, relationship with the world.
Through an interactive and tactile display the public will discover the virtuoso techniques of the hand-made and the ingenious design of ergonomic tools; they will experience the sensuality of haptic design and understand the importance of touch in technological interfaces.
A free tactile brochure accompanies the exhibition.
Visit one of the exhibition and benefit from a reduced fee at the other museum (until 28 October 2012) !
Claude Verdan Foundation - Museum oft he Hand: www.verdan.ch
2012 Exhibitions programme
TOUCH, the world at your fingertips
1 exhibition, 2 venues: Claude Verdan Foundation /Museum of the Hand - mudac
4 July - 28 October 2012
Carte blanche to Adrien Rovero / ground floor
4 July - 28 October 2012
Pop-up, New Dimensions in Design/ ground floor and first floor
21 November 2012 thru 3 March 2013
An exhibition created by Lidewij Edelkoort in partnership with the Graphic Design Museum of Breda in Holland
Learn More
Download press release (pdf - 1.4 Mo)
