“It rises out of the mess”
“Fredrik Svensk looks a regenerated design, aim towards the educational ideals”
“the Röhsska museum in Gothenburg, sweden, open at last after nearly two years of closure because of the lousy work environment and poor finances. After lost state assignments, some severance pay, psykosyntetisk konsultterapi, the reorganisation of the municipal administration and a number of architectural attempts to adapt the building to today’s tillgänglighetsnorm is in all cases the feeling in the air when a step into a different than in the past.”
“the New boss, Norwegian Nina Due to which the last comes from the Design museum in London, has had the opportunity to hire some new people, but initially it seems not to have happened much with the museum’s relationship to his subject, that is to say, design and crafts.nnn”
“the Röhsska museum’s collection was created with the help of some of Gothenburg’s big capitalists around the turn of the last century. And unlike today’s one percent, they built not, first and foremost, their own museums, but contributed to a common bourgeois public sphere.”
“Families who Röhss, who made themselves wealthy at the including coffee – and bomullsimport, were some that allowed the adventurer and botanist Thorild Wulff went to China after the revolution of 1911. In spite of his ignorance of the arts and crafts he bought what today is a unique collection of east asian art.”
“Now, it is presented more educational than in the past, at the top of the museum. There is also a room with Swedish art inspired by the chinese masters, where the admiration and subservience is at the heart of the presentation, rather than cultural reclamation.”
“I really appreciate the photographs from the Wulffs expedition, but would like to have seen more of the circumstances surrounding the trip. For even if the official aim was to let the Swedish crafters learn of China, miss the museum the opportunity to weave in the fact that Wulff called himself ”röfvarhövding”. Röfveri and the construction of a democratic institution such as the museum, is hardly a historical contradiction.”
“the Museum has, however, taken to be on the question of how a museum becomes and how a collection is created, through an attempt to ”increase the participation in the selection process”. Students from Sjumilaskolan in the bishop’s palace have been invited to together with the Design Lab’s form the expert council, which is studying the collections, affect what will be shown, and practice to evaluate the subject. A reminder to all public museums should be an integral part of the education system, and not just something primary-school students or college students then and then possibly visit at their leisure. “
“A part of the rededication, include an exhibition of Brynjar Sigurðarson (to 12 may), that 2018 was awarded the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg prize, which is reminiscent of the private property’s importance for the museum’s existence.”
“Sigurðarson is truly an exciting artist and very of the as processed and embodied sculptural originates from the experience of sea, nature and cultural life on the Island. In addition to documentary-style movies are always a brukselement in the works. But the exhibition feels severely overloaded, the effect will be that one thrown around among the impressions, but to be left in peace with one item at a time. Perhaps a way to emphasize that this is not an art object without the use of tools to take out and use?”
“A show that has not yet changed is the Museum design history: 1800-2010. In the light of Fredrik Paulsens project Unmaking democratic design (to 19 may), it appears as a meta-exhibition of a positivistiskt educational design history. “
“Paulsen has received from prominent konstteoretiska texts such as Ellen key’s Beauty for all (1899) and Gregor Paulsson’s more Beautiful objects for everyday life (1919) up to Ikea’s so-called democratic design, in order to examine its paradoxes.”
“the Exhibition tackles the issue from five different perspectives. A historic area with four chairs set in different ways to make the problem with a democratic cannon. In another part he has made chairs made of cheap material, in a third, he allows the visitors to make their own chair, in a fourth, he points out the normative effect, and in the fifth he has made to produce a simple chair that the buyer puts together.”
“What especially makes this show into something new in the museum’s history is that it is not just self-critically examines the five complications of the design of our lives, but also involving as many publikpraktiker – but to idealize any of them as the parent.”
“Whether it comes to building a chair, it arbetskritiska granskandet of stolproduktionen, the viewership of the chairs on the podiums in the white gallery, or to the seat and the feeling of unfinished chairs are just the addition of these different mode, much more important for the future of the museum, than to let the catalogue texts and curatorial concepts make konstobjekten to illustrations of ideas.”
“Unmaking the democratic design is a deal with the persistence of the notion of the difference between an active participation and a passive-contemplating art. “
“I believe indeed that this is essential if the museum should be able to take advantage of what its first curator, Axel Nilsson, claimed. Namely, that an institution is no longer – as in the toothbrush – should be regarded as an upper-class form of indulgence.”
