18-05-2022
Luis Barragán and Sabine Marcelis at the Vitra Campus
Two important additions enrich the Vitra Campus collection. From May 14 at the Vitra Schaudepot, the "exhibition depot" designed by the Herzog & De Meuron studio, it is possible to visit Luis Barragán's Archive, the most important Mexican architect of the 20th century. On the same day "Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis" was also inaugurated. The Dutch designer has conceived a new installation based on colour to present to the public, in a whole new perspective, the permanent collection kept in the Vitra Schaudepot.
After the famous "Luis Barragán: The Quiet Revolution" traveling exhibition realised in 2000, the Barragan Foundation and the Vitra Design Museum have created a new important collaboration aimed at the diffusion of the works created by Luis Barragán (1902-1988), the most important Mexican architect of the 20th century and Pritzker Prize winner in 1980. On the Vitra campus, the Mexican architect's Archive will be housed in a new location conceived by Dieter Thiel, in close proximity to the Vitra Schaudepot, the "exhibition depot" designed by the Herzog & De Meuron studio. The Barragán Archive was presented to the public on May 14 and consists of a heritage of about 13,500 sketches, drawings, plans and other documents, an equal number of photographic prints, slides and negatives, as well as models, furniture and various objects. The initiative aims to disseminate greater knowledge and facilitate studies and research on Luis Barragán's architecture, as well as collaborations between the Archive and other institutions. It also enriches the archival heritage of the Vitra Design Museum, which also houses the archives of important designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, Anton Lorenz, George Nelson and Verner Panton.
Also on May 14, "Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis" was also inaugurated. Every year the collection of the Vitra Design Museum is presented to the public in a fresh light. Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis conceived the new annual installation based entirely on colour. In a simple yet revolutionary gesture, all the objects on display in the Vitra Schaudepot have been rearranged and displayed according to colour. A great tribute to the central role of colour in design, which has given rise to fascinating cross-references between works from different periods and styles.< / p>
(Agnese Bifulco)
All images courtes of Vitra Design Museum
(03-05) Barragán Gallery Images © Barragan Foundation
(01,02, 06 - 21) "Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis" Images © Vitra Design Museum
Barragán Gallery, Vitra Schaudepot
Barragán Archive, Curator: Martin Josephy
Curatorial Consultancy: Luis E. Carranza
Barragán Archive, Archivist: Matthias Pühl
Design, Barragán Gallery: Dieter Thiel
Exhibition title: Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis
Exhibition design: Sabine Marcelis, assistant: Johanna Sepp
Curators: Susanne Graner, Nina Steinmüller
Duration: 14 May 2022 to 14 May 2023
Hashtags: #VitraSchaudepot #VDMColourRush
Venue: Vitra Schaudepot Charles-Eames-Straße 2, 79576 Weil am Rhein, Germany
www.design-museum.de
Captions
01 Key visual for the exhibition » Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis« © Vitra Design Museum, graphic design: Judith Brugger
02 Verner Panton, Mira-X Colour Circle © Verner Panton Design, Vitra Design Museum, Verner Panton Estate, photo: Andreas Sütterlin
03 Luis Barragán, 1963. Photograph by Ursula Bernath. Courtesy Barragan Foundation, Photo: Ursula Bernath
04 Holdings in the Barragán Archive, detail view. © Barragan Foundation, Photo: Lake Verea
05 Holdings in the Barragán Archive, detail view. © Barragan Foundation, Photo: Lake Verea
06 Enzo Mari, Box Chair, 1971-1976 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Jürgen Hans
07 Charles & Ray Eames, DAX / Plastic Armchair, Fiberglass Armchair, 1948-1950 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Thomas Dix
08 Naoto Fukasawa, Chair, 2007 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Jürgen Hans
09 Ettore Sottsass, Perry A. King, Valentine, 1969 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Andreas Sütterlin, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022
10 Terje Ekstrøm, Ekstrem, 1972 © Vitra Design Museum photo: Jürgen Hans
11 Sabine Marcelis, Candy Cube, 2014; Courtesy of Studio Sabine Marcelis
12 Cheick Diallo, Sansa, 2010 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Jürgen Hans
13 Gae Aulenti, No. 4794, 1968 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Jürgen Hans
14 Libuše Niklová, Inflatable Toy »Elephant«, 1975 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Andreas Sütterlin
15 Pierre Paulin, No. 577 / Tongue, Osaka, 1963 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Jürgen Hans
16 Mischer‘traxler, Idea of a Tree, 2010 © Vitra Design Museum, Foto: Andreas Sütterlin
17 Aino Aalto, Garden lounger, 1938/39 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Jürgen Hans
18 Dorothee Becker, Uten.Silo, 1971 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Andreas Sütterlin
19 Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), SANAA Chair, 2003 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Jürgen Hans
20 Marcel Breuer, B 3 / Wassily, 1925 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Jürgen Hans
21 Amadou Fatoumata Ba, Pouf Tressé, 2014 © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Andreas Sütterlin
