Events & Projects

Patrick Rampelotto – “supermodified“ October 25th - November 24th 2018 Gallery rauminhalt_harald bichler For Patrick Rampelotto, design is not only about reinterpreting tradition, but about pimping it up. In his most recent work, he called on the skills of Tibetan carpet weavers and the sketches of Adolf Loos to create pieces that are both simple and ingenious. Their aesthetics stands where post-modernism and post-punk meet. Always aiming at making more with less, Rampelotto has a predilection for mundane materials like duct tape, and elementary production techniques like weaving. He never starts from scratch. He rather transfigures remnants of culture by strategically misusing them: he makes a decorative motif out of a didactic sketch, a couch out of a house or a surface out of a repairing tool. Design is then to be understood as a “supermodification” of the most familiar things. The “Tape chairs, chandeliers, mirror and trolley” Rampelotto scouted flea markets and brought back chairs, mirrors and luminaries that were later stripped of their external layers. He gave them a new duct tape skin whose wrinkled glossy finish recalls the texture of knife paintings or papier-mâché. (Catherine Lemieux)