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The emotional experience of the "magic object" according to Maestro Sottsass

2021-12-08T15:54:57.736Z


DECRYPTION - Through nearly a thousand often unpublished works, the Center Pompidou returns to the sources of inspiration of this visionary and willingly mystical designer.


Much more than a designer, Ettore Sottsass was a pioneer in many fields.

This is what the Center Pompidou makes us discover through more than 400 drawings, paintings and objects, 500 photographs and 200 often unpublished documents from the archives of the Kandinsky library, finally exploited.

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With this documentation which considerably broadens our knowledge of man, the course traces the fabulous career of this curious and sensitive jack-of-all-trades who tackled almost all the arts, without forgetting architecture, scenography and even poetry.

We discover that this travel enthusiast left to explore Asia, India or Africa to draw his inspiration from popular culture, vernacular architecture, ancient civilizations.

His wonderful little spiral notebooks, very methodical and full of details, contrast with the wandering and spiritual thoughts of this Austrian, who died in 2007 in Milan at the age of 90.

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Source: lefigaro

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