Tales of Heroes

Design Flanders, Pieter Boons & Heimat

 

30. mai - 23. juni 2013

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Do we have a need to recognise something from the past when surrounded by contemporary design? In the Tales of Heroes exhibition, we meet new Flemish and Brussels-based designers through a range of thirty objects, carefully prepared by curator Inge Vranken. Most of the objects represent small-scale production, some bordering on artwork using materials and experimental elements.  

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The exhibition concept is, according to its title, about giving each object a type of heroic story. Production designer Pieter Boons has constructed the new design with finds and old objects into a large amalgamated ”Gesamtkunstwerk”, where the story of each item leads to new stories. Nostalgia is sometimes perceived as a forbidden and naive concept. In this exhibition the nostalgia is so humorous and self-ironic that the audience will get exactly what they want from it; their own version, the future seen with icons from the past within a preconceived outline.   

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The exhibition opens Thursday 30 May at 19.00. Introduction from Belgian ambassador in Norway, Michel Godfrind. 

The project has been produced together with Design Flanders. The exhibition is on a world tour and RAM gallery is its only stop in Norway. 

Welcome to a press viewing Wednesday 29 May at 14.00.