Helpdesk Rotsoord for Utrecht Manifest
HELPDESK ROTSOORD
Curator: Studio Makkink & Bey,
Guest curator: Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters
Waddenzee - Eb (Low tide)
Waddenzee
Series of porcelain
Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters
Sponsored by Stichting Stokroos and Doen|Materiaalprijs’11
2012
Coming week studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters will show parts of their Waddenzee porcelain during the Salone del Mobile in Milan at the presentation “MU goes Milan”
“Waddenzee” is a limited edition series of porcelain plates and cups inspired by the sea that lies in the north of the Netherlands, Germany and west of Denmark. The sea forms a shallow body of water with tidal flats and wetlands. The porcelain series portrays this unique nature area as well as it imitates its behavior.
In search of the character of the Wadden Sea, Maarten and Guus started to project the natural behavior of the sea on the production process of porcelain. “The tidal behavior of the sea is comparable to the production of ceramics; it’s a flow of clay and water repeating its process every 12 hours. What we liked about it that it seems that it all happens in the single ebb and flood movement; after every high tide the landscape seems new again.
To portray the Wadden Sea, we thought that imitating it could help us to find its character. The “Eb” (low tide) plates have a cobalt glaze in their mold. Every time the liquid porcelain is poured in, some of this glaze attaches to the plate. The first plate that is produced in the mold is darkly glazed, the second one will be a bit lighter, and so on.”
MU goes Milan
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Via Privata Oslavia 8
20134 Milan, Italy
open Tuesday till Sunday
daily form 10.00-20.00h
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Avifauna for Rubelli
Avifauna for Rubelli
Collection of 13 Avifauna birds
Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters
Commissioned by Rubelli, art direction by Edelkoort ETC
2012
For Italian textile producer Rubelli, studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters made a special series of Avifauna birds, which will be shown at Spazio Rossana Orlandi, during the 2012 Salone del Mobile in Milan. The series contains 13 different birds varying from a swan and stork to a woodcock and a quail, all covered in Reticolo Ardesia fabric form Rubelli’s collection.
Avifauna, the bird life, is a series of conserved bird species molded in textile.
“After having observed, analyzed and documented nature, we’ve stared with Avifauna to materialize nature as we see it. In every new project we learn more about the change of land, water and the flora and fauna that go with it. Being designers we see blossoming timber, bleeding textiles, moving garlands and a limitless offer of techniques in the ways nature constantly changes and adapts. We try to materialize our observations and bring it closer to the industry we work in. In Avifauna we molded on the conserved parts of the species to materialize their characteristics in textiles.
In 2010 the collection existed among others of a Grey Heron, Tawny Owl, Lapwing and Blackbird. Now the collection expanded with this special edition collection for Rubelli.
Spazio Rossana Orlandi via Matteo Bandello 14/16, Milan, Italy
Open daily 10h-20h
Winner Faces of design Award 2012
We’re proud to announce we’re on of the 24 winners of the Faces of Design Awards 2012 and one of their special mentions.
Link to Faces of Design
Eb
Living with nature, history, color and environment is the principal source of inspiration of the work of studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters. The exhibition “Eb” (low tide) talks about the aesthetics of natural water and the traces in the landscape. The raw nature of the Dutch Wadden Sea area is trapped in various items ranging from ceramics to organic fabrics and polyester panels.
Eb is created for Kavan Ronsey and presented at BeLa Editions, 28 rue Lens, Brussels from 13.01.2012 – 10.02.2012.
Waddenzee Herbaria
Waddenzee Herbaria
Polyester, seaweeds
2012
“We are often inspired by plants and used them as natural material in previous works. This time we were intrigued by seaweeds that we found in the Wadden Sea. They are beautiful drifting and flowing through the water. In a way we wanted to catch this moment and bring it home with us, which of course is impossible. By using polyester and special pigments we tried to capture the beauty of the weeds floating in the sea in an object.”
Waddenzee was first shown at “Eb” for Kavan Ronsey at BeLa Editions, 28 rue Lens, Brussels from 13.01.2012 – 10.02.2012.
Link to Kavan Ronsey
Waddenzee
Image: Waddenzee - Vloed L
Waddenzee – Eb, Vloed M & L, Modder
Porcelain series of cups and decorative plates
2012
“Waddenzee”
“Waddenzee” is a limited edition series of porcelain plates and cups inspired by the sea that lies in the north of the Netherlands, Germany and west of Denmark. The sea forms a shallow body of water with tidal flats and wetlands. The porcelain series portrays this unique nature area as well as it imitates its behavior.
In search of the character the Wadden Sea, Maarten and Guus started to project the natural behavior of the sea on to the production process of porcelain. “The tidal behavior of the sea is comparable to the production of ceramics; it’s a flow of clay and water repeating its process every 12 hours. What we liked about it that it seems that it all happens in the single ebb and flood movement; After every high tide the landscape seems new again. We tried to capture that by having as little steps in the production process as possible. The “Mud” cups are colored in their pour, the “Eb” plates are created in a painted mold passing some of its pigments with every production. Because most pieces are glazed and finished before they have even placed in the oven for the first time, the biscuit stage (ceramics are mostly baked in two stages) becomes unnecessary. But what we might like the most is that we are not the ones in control of what the plate or cup will look like in the end; It’s the water that decides.”
Waddenzee was first shown at “Eb” for Kavan Ronsey at BeLa Editions, 28 rue Lens, Brussels from 13.01.2012 – 10.02.2012.
Waddenzee has been created with the help of Stichting Stokroos and Doen|Materiaalprijs
Silent Fish
Silent Fish
Laminated newspaper, scotch tape
2012
At a low tide, when the sea retrieves itself, washed ashore animals and plants appear on the muddy surface of the Waddensea coast. Inspired by these odd creatures we’ve created the Silent Fish, a hollow fish shell made of laminated newspaper.
The Silent Fish were first shown at “Eb” for Kavan Ronsey at BeLa Editions, 28 rue Lens, Brussels from 13.01.2012 – 10.02.2012.
Link to Kavan Ronsey
above Temporary Trees - Platan
Temporary Trees
Raw Color & Mkgk
for MU, Make a Forest
2011
Trees are often regarded as objects and are removed according to the landscape plan ruthlessly. In the Netherlands trees typically reach only one tenth of the age that they could make.
For Raw Color and studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters trees are anything but static. They ever changing life forms that determine how we experience light, shade, wind and changes of the seasons. This observation, is translated to “illusions” of trees in different materials, that represent the life, dynamics and transformation of trees.
The Temporary Trees have a place in the MU pavilion ‘Wild-S’ on the Strijp-S area. Invited by MU the project is part of Make a Forest, an international platform, founded by Joanna van der Zanden and Anne van der Zwaag.
Temporary Trees – Leaves
Raw Color & Mkgk
for MU, Make a Forest
Video 720x1280
Duration 00:04:21:19
2011
Exhibition design ‘The making of …’ Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg
Exhibition design
2011
Commissioned by Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg
The exhibition ‘The making of …’ (projects from the TextielLab) shows a selection of pieces from the museums collection. All pieces have been developed the past four years in the TextielLAb. Curator Caroline Boot of the Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg asked us to design the exhibition.
“The emphasis in ‘The making of …’ is on the entire developing process of the seventeen different projects, ranging from fashion to a chair and autonomous works. The layout takes the visitor backwards through the whole process. Starting at the end results, via the experiments from the TextielLab to the very first ideas, inspirations and sketches of the designers and artists. Little embroidered icons which refer to the actual collection pieces help the visitors way through the exhibition and make them able to follow the whole process of specific works. These embroideries are part of the overall graphic design of the exhibition, which we created as well, besides the concept, spatial and furniture design and color plan.
Link to Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg
AF Vandevorst AW 11/12
The A.F. Vandevorst collection AW 11/12 of fashion designers An Vandevorst en Filip Arickx is inspired by the Avifauna birds.
For articles:
Dazed & Confused
Style.com
NYtimes.com
many thanks to:
AF Vandervorst
Kavan Ronsey Gallery
Waterloop - Algengroei
karpet 160 x 240 cm
2010
In opdracht van Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg
Elke keer dat de textielprinter van het museum een print heeft gemaakt word de printer automatisch schoongemaakt. Er word een beetje inkt weggezogen van alle printkoppen. Het Algengroei-karpet is geverfd met restinkt van de printer. Op een tuft van ongebleekte linnen is van onder af inkt aangebracht wat de lussen kleurt. Er is een kleurverloop aangebracht in het karpet waardoor in de donkere delen de lussen volledig geverfd zijn, en in de lichtste delen enkel de aanzet.
link to Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg
