Trix and Robert Haussmann: The Log-O-Rithmic Slide Rule
Nottingham Contemporary, ETH Zurich United Kingdom, Switzerland 2018
The exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary was the first UK retrospective of Swiss architects, Trix & Haussmann. The space designed by Caruso St John brought together their work from the past fifty years, spanning architecture, product design, furniture and textiles.
Split between two main galleries, with one featuring their furniture, and the other a collection of their archive work. It celebrated the duo’s playful innovations, with pieces such as their surrealist furniture, the Maso-chair, as well as their mirrored sculptures, like the Hommage à Braccelli. Each part of the exhibition was held within the Haussmann palette: a pink carpet with grey walls, or a golden curtain. The Itten-esque palette a reference to their house outside Zurich, where their collections of art and objects layer pattern, colour, and texture. The walls equally featured a geometric, triangular pattern based on the tectonic form of the ceiling, and plays with, and in a way, regulates Jean Arp’s loi du hazard, a favourite game of the pair.
The space also included interventions by artists Liam Gillick and Karl Holmqvist, and Petra Blaisse of Inside Outside.
The exhibition also travelled to ETH Zurich.
Drawings
Credits
Location
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Date
2018
Client
Nottingham Contemporary
ETH Zurich
Caruso St John Architects
Adam Caruso, Peter St John
Project architect
Fabienne Sommer
Collaborating artists
Trix and Robert Haussmann
Photography
Philip Heckhausen
Ioana Marinescu
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