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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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“I am here to create an environment of love, live with passion, and make our most exciting dreams come true.”
Marcel Wanders is the enfant terrible of the international design scene. He does away with all rigid rules and cannot be pigeonholed. To put it shortly: Wanders is a liberator. As such, he gets down to work and frees the ideas of his exuberant imagination, translating them into projects that surely have more in mind beyond pure function. Only a creative mind like Wanders could come up with an idea such as the “One Minute Sculpture,” which he makes with his own hands and then gilds, as though on a production line. An homage to a golden handcraft and simultaneously a humorous critique of mass production.
Wanders is also an avowed fan of, to put it in his own words, the grandest design achievement of all time: evolution. With this in mind, his photographs Three Queens seem like fantastic portraits of three queen bees that complaisantly and stylishly or with cool distance rein over an “environment of love.” A honeycomb-like background alienates the quintessentially beautiful creatures.
“Photography is the most influential medium, I think. It makes the most bizarre realities look as normal as the girl next door, makes illusions accessible, and lets us feel connected to all the magnificent things the world has to offer,” according to Wanders, whose works can be seen in MoMA New York, MoMA San Francisco, and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Horst KlöverVITA
1963 born in Boxtel near Amsterdam, Netherlands 1981-1982 Academie voor Industriële Vormgeving (design academy), Eindhoven, Netherlands 1982-1985 Academie voor Toegepaste kunsten, Maastricht, Netherlands 1983-1985 Academie voor Schone kunsten, Hasselt, Belgium 1985-1988 Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnheim, Netherlands Cum Laude Certificate 1988 seit 1988 freelance industrial and product designer 1989-1991 lecturer, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Rotterdam, Netherlands 1990-1992 designer, Landmark Design & Consult b.v., Rotterdam, Netherlands 1990 lecturer, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1991-1993 lecturer, Academie voor Industriële Vormgeving, Eindhoven, Netherlands 1992 Wanders founds Droog Design, together with Dutch designers and concept artists 1992-1995 partner, WAAC's Design & Consults, Rotterdam, Netherlands 1992 juror, Rotterdam Design Prize, Netherlands 1993-1994 lecturer, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1995-2001 director, Wanders Wonder, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1995 juror, Rotterdam Design Prize, Netherlands 1996 releases the famous "Knottet Chair", produced for Droog Design 1997 juror, Limperg Award, Netherlands 2000 founds "Moooi" juror, Kho Liang Ie Award, Netherlands juror, Françoise van den Bosch prize, Netherlands project director, Vitra Summer Workshops, France lecturer, SFMoMa, USA lecturer, trend-forecasts, Netherlands Fashion Forecast Institute 2001 project director, Vitra Summer Workshops, France lecturer, Limn, San Francisco, USA lecturer, Design Academy, Niederlande founds Marcel Wanders studio, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2003 lecturer, FutureDesignDays, Boras, Sweden ab 2004 art director and co-owner, LUTE SUITES, Amsterdam, Netherlands lecturer, Museum of Art & Design, New York, USA lecturer, Design Festival, Portland, USA 2005 guest editor, The International Design Yearbook 2005 interior design, restaurants Blits, Rotterdam, Netherlands interior design, restaurant Thor (Hotel on Rivington, New York, USA) lecturer, Thailand Creative and Design Centre, Bangkok, Thailand lecturer, International Dutch Design Congress, Eindhoven, Netherlands
