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BELGIUM / Hornu: ALDO BAKKER
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday August 14 2016

CID: Center for Innovation and Design at Grand-Hornu
T : +32 (0)65 65 21 21
Rue Sainte-Louise, 82
7301 Hornu
Belgium



PRESENCE(S)

This is the first large-scale retrospective to focus on the Dutch designer Aldo Bakker.
After several years of patient, applied research during which time he radically developed his formal universe, Aldo has worked on a series of projects, either alone or jointly with some of the most prestigious brands (Georg Jensen, Puiforcat and Sèvres).

Turning his back on functionalism as much as post-modernism and any other movement or trend, Aldo Bakker has developed a highly personal, formal vocabulary. His objects often appear to be invested with a personality and have their own character, as though they were autonomous creatures. Shaped for the most part out of a single material (ceramic, glass, wood, copper, etc.) they resemble organic, friendly forms, not unlike a pictogram. Their relative functionality leads to a dramatisation of human gestures.
The acts of opening, pouring from or picking up an object all become unexpectedly drawn out and theatrical.

© Modem