Tear and Discover Kunstinstallatie by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu

Tear and Discover Kunstinstallatie by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award in Brons in Beeldende Kunst en Kunstinstallatie Ontwerp Competition Category.

BronsBeeldende Kunst· 2022

Tear and Discover Kunstinstallatie

by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu

A' Design Award in Brons Winner in Beeldende Kunst Category

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The Design

About Tear and Discover Kunstinstallatie

Tear and Discover is een kunstinstallatie bestaande uit vier huishoudelijke producten: een luidspreker, een vloerlamp, een klok en een ventilator. Elk object is volledig in leer gewikkeld, waardoor het geluid, het licht, de tijd en de luchtstroom verborgen blijven. Om een functie te gebruiken, moet de bezoeker de leren hoes doorsnijden. Het leer en de bijbehorende labels staan symbool voor de symbolische waarde van goederen, terwijl de onderdelen erin de gebruikswaarde vertegenwoordigen. Alle hoezen zijn met de hand gevormd uit 1,5 mm plantaardig gelooid leer en worden ondersteund door roestvrijstalen structuren. Het werk bevraagt de relatie tussen teken en functie binnen consumptie.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Brons

Tear and Discover Kunstinstallatie is winnaar van de A' Design Award in Brons, een hoogst prestigieuze erkenning die wordt toegekend aan uitstekende ontwerpen die zich onderscheiden door creativiteit, vindingrijkheid en scherpzinnigheid. Winnaars in Brons zijn ruimschoots vaardige en opvallend creatieve artefacten die de grote ervaring, verbeelding en het vernuft van hun ontwerpers bevestigen. Tear and Discover Kunstinstallatie wordt verwacht een hooggewaardeerd, bewonderd en gekoesterd object te zijn dat opmerkelijk professioneel en innovatief is. Dit ontwerp dat de A' Design Award in Brons heeft gewonnen, verwerkt de beste praktijken in kunst, wetenschap, ontwerp en technologie en is uitstekend door zijn aandacht voor detail. Tear and Discover Kunstinstallatie bevredigt schitterend behoeften, raakt verlangens, charmeert gevoelens en spreekt de nieuwsgierigheid aan.

Behind the Design

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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