Ron Arad: No Discipline Preview
Israeli-born British designer and architect Ron Arad has made a name for himself pushing the boundaries of forms and materials, so it comes at no surprise that the installation devised for Arad’s upcoming retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is a shape-shifting work of its own.
Rover Chair (1981)
Photo by Erik and Petra Hesmerg and courtesy of Private Collection, Maastricht, and the
Museum of Modern Art
Sketch for Southern Hemisphere (2007)Ron Arad Associates and the Museum of Modern Art
Named the Cage sans Frontières (Cage without Borders), Arad’s creation for the exhibition, titled Ron Arad: No Discipline, is a 126-foot-long, 16-feet-tall corten-and-stainless-steel structure that holds the majority of the 140 works to be exhibited in its 240 square cutouts. The stainless steel-lined cubes that hold the works reflect and ricochet the objects' shapes along the inside of one side of the Cage, which spans the entire length of the museum’s International Council gallery, while the other side is covered in a gray gauze fabric and only reveals silhouettes of the displayed pieces.
The first major retrospective in the United States of Arad’s work, the exhibition spans Arad’s career from his early Rover Chair and Concrete Stereo of the 1980s through his more recent works, like the text message-displaying Lolita chandelier and Southern Hemisphere chair. The exhibition opens August 2 for a brief two and a half months. To view an in-depth slideshow of renderings of Cage sans Frontières, sketches of Arad's iconic pieces, and objects that will be on display, click the yellow "Slideshow" button at the top right-hand corner of this post.
Rendering of the Ron Arad: No Discipline exhibition, featuring Lolita chandelier and Even the Odd Balls? chairs
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Ron Arad Associates and the Museum of Modern Art
Rendering of the Ron Arad: No Discipline exhibition, featuring Cage sans Frontières (Cage without Borders)
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Ron Arad Associates and the Museum of Modern Art
Concrete Stereo (1983)
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Blown Out of Proportion (B.O.O.P.) vase (1998)
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Thibault Jeanson and courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art
Chalk Farm Road Studio (1981-91)
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Ron Arad Associates and the Museum of Modern Art
Bookworm 8008 (1993)
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Sketchy for Large Bookworm (1993)
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Large Bookworm (1993)
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Panoramic Restaurant at Les Diablerets, Gstaad
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Sketch for FPE (Fantastic, Plastic, Elastic, 1997)
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FPE (Fantastic, Plastic, Elastic, 1997)
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Narrow Pappardelle (1992)
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Fonds National d’Art Contemporain and the Museum of Modern Art
Big Easy Volume 2 (1998)
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Ron Arad Associates and the Museum of Modern Art
Lolita (2004)
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Sketch for Well Tempered Chair (1986)
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Well Tempered Chair prototype (1986)
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Vitra Design Museum and the Museum of Modern Art
Looming Lloyd (1989)
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Vitra Design Museum and the Museum of Modern Art
MT Rocker Chair (2005)
Photo by Erik and Petra Hesmerg and courtesy of Private Collection, Maastricht, and the
Museum of Modern Art
PizzaKobra (2007)
Ron Arad Associates and the Museum of Modern Art
Ripple Chair (2006)PizzaKobra (2007)
Ron Arad Associates and the Museum of Modern Art
Ripple Chair dressed with A-POC (A Piece of Cloth) with Issey Miyake and Dai Fujiwara of Miyake Design Studio (2006)
Ron Arad Associates and the Museum of Modern Art
Oh-Void 2 (2006)
Photo by Erik and Petra Hesmerg and courtesy of Private Collection, USA, and the
Museum of Modern Art
Southern Hemisphere (2007)
Photo by Erik and Petra Hesmerg and courtesy of Private Collection, Maastricht, and the
Museum of Modern Art
Y's Store (2003)Ron Arad Associates and the Museum of Modern Art
Pic Chair (1997)
Photo by Erik and Petra Hesmerg and courtesy of Private Collection, Maastricht, and the
Museum of Modern Art
Rendering of the Ron Arad: No Discipline exhibition, featuring Cage sans Frontières (Cage without Borders)
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Ron Arad Associates and the Museum of Modern Art
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