Darkness
17 Feb - 14 March 2005
the absence of one is the life of the other.
Exhibiting 22 pieces of design, a painting, a jacket and a photography project, Darkness is a show about light.
THE EXIBITION INCLUDES EXPERIMENTAL AND NEW WORK BY
Ron Arad
Pieke Bergmans
Jordi Canudas
Gad Charny
Joel Degermark
Thomas Gardner
Stefano Giovannoni
Marti Guixe
Gitta Gschwendtner
Admir Jukanovic
Ronen Kadushin
Catherine Morland
Denis Santachiara
Jess Shaw
Kazuhiro Yamanka
Light holds a strong attraction for designers and artists. Many lighting exhibitions concentrate on the object of lighting, this exhibition looks at the way light is used as a material and explores the transformation that objects undergo when the light is switched on.
Darkness has a rich world of meaning associated with it, it’s at the start and the end, to Byron she was the universe, to Luther king the metaphor for hate, light being love, and in many cultures the first light is the beginning of knowledge. Darkness and light have a long-standing relationship, probably from the very first of mornings. William Blake’s evil descends in the form of light into material darkness, and for Jung the purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
For many designers and artists it is light that brings life to form, and holds a never ending fascination with the way different materials transform in its presence. Often designers have an idea and in the absence of a better application it ends up as a light. The pieces in this show engage with light as crucial element in the work, some as a mediator answering the problem of darkness, others as a material defining space and volume, and many as that magical ingredient that adds meaning to object.
In the wake of darkness we have a variety of ideas ranging from supporting a task to exploring meaning. Most of the exhibits in this show are lights, but not all, playing with the source, or the container, the material or shape, these pieces use light as substantial component.
THERE ARE FOUR TYPES OF PROJECTS IN THE EXHIBITION
Light for a task - Products that enable flexible behaviour
Light as material - projects that use the light to surprise and create an experience
Light as form – Products that have a distinct transformation and intensified presence when light is on
Light as meaning - Projects that harness light to express ideas
Light bursts, fills, seeps, bounces, floods, creeps, spreads, burns, blinds. Darkness recedes, circles, defines, completes, contains, embraces, suffocates.
Curator: Daniel Charny
Gallery Director: Zeev Aram
