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With its nine collecting areas, the MAK not only represents an enormous store of objects and information, but also bears witness to how processing techniques, materials research and concepts of both science and functional aesthetics undergo constant development and reflect society´s continual change. A history of transformation can be traced which crosses chronological, regional and geographic boundaries and manifests itself in all areas of aplied art, including the way such areas open up to other disciplines and fields of research. Krüger & Pardeller have developed a variable display which is set in motion simply by being observed. |
Untitled, MAK 02, 2012 lacquered wood, 6 screen-prints, à 162 x 75 x 162 cm MAK Museum of Applied Arts|Contemporary Art |
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One half of them consists in motifs derived from nature, such as those which provided the basis for Japanese printing stencils of textile designs of the Wiener Werkstätte. The other half is drawn from formal vocabulary of cultural products resulting from the design sketches for clothing, architecture, tools and containers. Together they form a passageway and thus a physical experience of form and space, narration and reference. |
Untitled, MAK 03, 2012 lacquered wood and MDF 2 parts, à 213 x 700 x 138 cm MAK Museum of Applied Arts|Contemporary Art |
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