“Akari Unfolded: A Collection by YMER&MALTA” at The Noguchi Museum, New York
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“Akari Unfolded: A Collection by YMER&MALTA” at the Noguchi Museum features a collection of 29 lamps created by Valerie Maltaverne’s leading French design studio YMER&MALTA, on view through January 27, 2019.Working with six designers, the studi“Akari Unfolded: A Collection by YMER&MALTA” at The Noguchi Museum, New York
“Akari Unfolded: A Collection by YMER&MALTA” at the Noguchi Museum features a collection of 29 lamps created by Valerie Maltaverne’s leading French design studio YMER&MALTA, on view through January 27, 2019.Working with six designers, the studio undertook a rich exploration of the essential values of Akari, investigating how Noguchi might work with new materials and processes to expand the wider universe of his light sculptures.“The resulting designs are not variations on Akari, but an exciting proof of how Noguchi’s sophisticated hybridities, such as craft and industry, and tradition and progress, continue to provide a powerful model for contemporary design,” writes the museum.Valerie Maltaverne, founder and Artistic Director of YMER&MALTA, notes: “The idea of creating a collection of lamps inspired by Noguchi’s Akari lanterns came to me during a visit to The Noguchi Museum in 2016, and has been nourished by my years-long love for Akari. This project has enabled our studio to reach outside traditional French craft for the first time, and to invent a new language for a new medium: light. Each of the resulting designs possesses its own singular architecture and, we hope, will, like Akari, transform any space into a home. We are thrilled with the results of our efforts, and grateful to The Noguchi Museum for this engaging, challenging, and productive partnership.”Dakin Hart, Senior Curator at The Noguchi Museum, says: “Everything that YMER&MALTA produces is an expression of her sensibilities and her determination to synthesize the old and the new by innovating from within the traditional crafts with which she engages.”“Overcoming many technical hurdles, [YMER&MALTA] pushed linen, metal, resin, Plexiglas, concrete, and paper in new directions and produced 26 light fixtures — which now join the radiant, ever-expanding legacy of Noguchi’s Akari,” adds Hart.The exhibition is on view through January 27, 2019, at The Noguchi Museum, 32-37 Vernon Boulevard Long Island City, NY 11106.For more details, visit: https://www.noguchi.org/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition. http://www.blouinartinfo.com/Founder: Louise Blouin Read more