Tear and Discover Taidesinstallaatio by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu

Tear and Discover Taidesinstallaatio by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Pronssipalkinto A' Design Award in Kuvataide Competition Category.

PronssiKuvataide· 2022

Tear and Discover Taidesinstallaatio

by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu

Pronssipalkinto A' Design Award Winner in Kuvataide Category

9,682

Verified Award Winner

Verify Award Status for #136522

View at A' Design Award Press Release Award Badge

Colors

The Design

About Tear and Discover Taidesinstallaatio

Tear and Discover on taideinstallaatio, joka koostuu neljästä kodinkoneesta: kaiuttimesta, lattiavalaisimesta, kellosta ja tuulettimesta. Jokainen esine on kokonaan verhoiltu nahkaan, jolloin ääni, valo, aika ja ilmavirta jäävät piiloon. Toiminnon käyttämiseksi kävijän on leikattava nahkapäällyste auki. Nahka ja sen etiketit edustavat tavaroiden symbolista arvoa, kun taas sisällä olevat osat tarjoavat käyttöarvon. Kaikki päällysteet on muotoiltu käsin 1,5 mm:n kasviparkitusta nahasta ja kiinnitetty ruostumattomasta teräksestä valmistetuilla tuilla. Teos kyseenalaistaa merkin ja toiminnon välisen suhteen kulutuksessa.

The Recognition

About the Pronssipalkinto A' Design Award

Tear and Discover Taidesinstallaatio on Pronssipalkinnon A' Design Award -voittaja, erittäin arvostettu tunnustus, joka myönnetään erinomaisille designeille, joita luonnehtivat luovuus, nerokkuus ja oveluus. Pronssivoittajat ovat runsaan taitavia ja silmiinpistävän luovia taiteellisia tuotoksia, jotka todistavat suunnittelijoidensa laajaa kokemusta, mielikuvitusta ja kekseliäisyyttä. Tear and Discover Taidesinstallaatio:n odotetaan olevan korkeassa arvossa pidetty, ihailtu ja rakastettu esine, joka on huomattavan ammattimainen ja innovatiivinen. Tämä Pronssipalkinnon A' Design Award -voittajadesign sisällyttää itseensä parhaita käytäntöjä taiteessa, tieteessä, designissa ja teknologiassa ja on erinomainen huomiollaan yksityiskohtiin. Tear and Discover Taidesinstallaatio tyydyttää upeasti tarpeita, koskettaa haluja, viehättää tunteita ja vetoaa uteliaisuuteen.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The work consists of four household products, speaker, floor lamp, clock, and fan, which are covered inside the leather. The leather and labels represent the symbolic value of the goods, while the functional components inside the leather deliver the use-value. This design emphasizes the contradiction between sign and function in the product consumption through a destructive interaction to 'cut' the signed cover and liberate the function.
Dimensions & Packaging: speaker,345*345*1427mm
floor lamp,372*305*1930mm
clock,455*140*100mm
fan，360*200*1610mm
Tags: art, craft, furniture, speaker, floor lamp, clock, fan
Production Technology: This work uses the leather wet shaping craft, the leather surface and stainless steel support form a strong visual tension. The whole set of products is all made of 1.5mm whole vegetable-tanned leather. After soaking for 8 hours, awakening the active protein of the leather and giving the leather better ductility. After it is wrapped on the shaping mold and shaped by hand, giving the product shapes a soft curve and organic sense.
Design Challenge: The most difficult part of this design is the expression of the mindset.
Firstly, how to express the idea through the design language? After many times discussion, The use of metaphorical forms of wrapping, highlighting and rupture, and contradictory interactions were confirmed.
Secondly, how to shape the leather into the form? This step took many material tests and prototypes before the final form was created.
Research: The work have taken the‘Consumption society’ as our research direction and the commodity as the object for our project. The design want to discuss the relationship between symbol, function, and commodity and reflected on the design. Through research the design aim to express the contradiction between symbolic value and use-value of products in the consumer society where signs are proliferating.
Inspiration: Living in the current era of consumption, symbolic consumption has gradually changed our mindset of on-demand consumption, and the functions of products have been obscured by the virtual signs created by capital. The endless pursuit of the sign has accelerated the waste of material. Therefore the work rethought the relationship among signs, functions, and design.
Project Duration: The project starts in November 2020 in Shanghai and is completed in 2021 in Shanghai, where it will be exhibited in June.
Operation Flow: The work covered by leather, functions are hidden inside——the sound is obscured, the light is covered, the time is hidden, the wind is blocked, in order to use the functions, the user needs to cut the leather through destructive interactions and destroy the complete leather the user's thoughts will be aroused during the interaction.
Patents: Jie Gao
Hengguang Wu
Team Members: Jie Gao
Hengguang Wu
Image Credits: Jie Gao, Hengguang Wu