More Rules for Modern Life

Asserting its wish to play with the flimsy distinctions between “objets d’art” and practical objects and to question the legitimacy of an exhibition on the fringes of such an outstanding event as the Milan Salone del Mobile, ECAL has invited visual artist John M Armleder to curate an exhibition displaying side by side the works of students from the Bachelor Fine Arts and the Bachelor Industrial Design programmes. After having (re)visited some of John M Armleder exhibitions and seen his iconic pieces, the Furniture Sculpture among others, the students used their chosen materials and processes to devise their exhibition pieces, which they developed at ECAL during a full semester under the watchful eye of designer and professor Christophe Guberan and Stéphane Kropf, artist and Head of the Bachelor Fine Arts. Playing with scale, shapes, colours and materials, the exhibited works defy pre-established categories: a rocking zebra for gangling children, a handless clock, a minimal painting with maximalist details, taped ceramic vases, a menhir made from recycled plastic, concrete marble… All piled up in a visual cacophony that is happily deliberate. Photos by ECAL/Younès Klouche assisted by Marceau Avogadro and Flora Mottini

Studio project (2017) with Christophe Guberan, Stéphane Kropf

Assistants: Marceau Avogadro, Flora Mottini
Students: Jérémy Aberlé, Cosima Antoine-Schumann, Nathan Baraness, Manfred-Gordon Baud, Lisa Bernasconi, Jonas Béguin, Julia Caron, Dylan Casasnovas, Jasmina Celikovic, Julien Chaintreau, Marie Cornil, Marina Daguet, Amélie Demay, Johanne Fouqueron, Loris Gomboso, Nathan Gramage, Laurie Greco, Iskander Guetta, Géraldine Guillaume, Victoria Mac Sweeney, Manon Membrez, Myriam Meyer, François Ménès, Dimitri Nassisi, Ferdinand Pezin, Johan Pricam, Hanieh Rashid, Célia Steinmetz, Manon Vernier, Marin de Saint-Exupéry
Know-how: Sculpture, Scenography, Installation

Overview Flo: ECAL/Laurie Greco – Cardbox: ECAL/Jérémy Aberlé & Loris Gomboso

Cardbox ECAL/Jérémy Aberlé & Loris Gomboso

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MoreRulesForModernLife.28.jpg — Keramos ECAL/Myriam Meyer

MoreRulesForModernLife.32.jpg — Hook ECAL/Manfred-Gordon Baud & Ferdinand Pezin

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MoreRulesForModernLife.15.jpg — Flo ECAL/Laurie Greco

MoreRulesForModernLife.29.jpg — Traffic ECAL/Géraldine Guillaume

Overview Manta: ECAL/Nathan Baraness – Dapple: Dylan Casasnovas

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MoreRulesForModernLife.11.jpg — Camo ECAL/Julien Chaintreau & François Ménès

MoreRulesForModernLife.30.jpg — Meta ECAL/Dimitri Nassisi

Overview Washi: Yohanna Rieckhoff – Clastic: Iskander Guetta – Worb: Manon Membrez – Tapisse: Marie Cornil

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MoreRulesForModernLife.27.jpg — Corbi ECAL/Jasmina Celikovic

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