until Monday December 06 2021
Galerie 2, Centre Pompidou
T : +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33
place Georges-Pompidou
75004 Paris
France
The exhibition Ettore Sottsass brings together an unique ensemble of major historical works by the Italian designer Ettore Sottsass from the 1940s to the 1980s. Over four hundred artworks (drawings, paintings, design objects), five hundred photographs, and two hundred original documents from the archives of the Bibliothèque Kandinsky, highlight all of the creative components of his work.
Designer, architect, writer, Ettore Sottsass Jr. (Innsbruck, Austria, 1917–Milan, Italy, 2007) opposing rationalism, he constantly asserted an emotional experience of objects. He saw design as a way of revising the fundaments of architecture, as well as weaving a new connection between humans and objects: ‘I have always thought that design starts where rational processes stop and where those of magic begin'.
Gallery 3, Level 1
Curator:
Marie-Ange Brayer, curator, head of the design and industrial prospection department
Céline Saraiva, conservation attaché
> 11:00-21:00, every Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. 11:00-23:00, every Thursdays
Photo: Ettore Sottsass, Maquette spatiale, 1946-47 Tôle, fil métallique, bois, 53,3 x 17 x 18,5 cm
Coll. Mnam/Cci © ADAGP, Paris, 2021 Ph © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Georges Meguerditchian/Dist. RMN-GPI
