Tear and Discover アートインスタレーション by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 銅賞 in ファインアート・アートインスタレーションデザイン Competition Category.
銅ファインアート· 2022
Tear and Discover アートインスタレーション
A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in ファインアート Category
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About Tear and Discover アートインスタレーション
「Tear and Discover（引き裂いて、見つける）」は、スピーカー、フロアランプ、時計、扇風機という4つの生活用品で構成されたアートインスタレーションである。それぞれのオブジェクトは全面をレザーで包み込まれており、音も、光も、時間も、風の流れも覆い隠されている。機能を使うためには、鑑賞者自らがレザーのカバーを切り開かなければならない。レザーとそこに付されたラベルは商品の記号的価値を象徴し、その内側にある部品が使用価値をもたらす。すべてのカバーは1.5mm厚のベジタブルタンニンなめしレザーを手作業で成形し、ステンレススチール製の支持構造で保持されている。本作は、消費における記号と機能の関係を問いかけるものである。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅賞
Tear and Discover アートインスタレーションは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Tear and Discover アートインスタレーションは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Tear and Discover アートインスタレーションは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。
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
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