Robert Stadler

Robert Stadler is an Austrian designer, born in 1966 in Vienna.

Biography

Pools & Pouf!

Robert Stadler studied design at IED and at ENSCI in Paris where in 1992 he co-founded the Radi Designers. The group was active until 2008. Since 2000, Robert Stadler lives and works solo in Paris.

His works

Robert Stadler intervenes in very diverse fields, obliterating all hierarchies between free proposals, industrial and public commissions.

He explores the exhibition space in order to scramble the usual categories of art and design. He questions the status of the object as work of art or product as well as the border between preciousness and lowliness, elegance and vulgarity, the serious and the absurd. Questioning the object’s identity or even provoking their dissolution, are fields of interest crossing most of his projects.

His work is present in several private and public collections such as Fondation Cartier, FNAC (Fonds national d'art contemporain), FRAC (Fonds régional d'art contemporain) Nord-Pas de Calais. He is represented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery and Galerie TripleV. He works for clients such as the Académie des César, Beaumarly, Dior, Hermès, Nissan, Orange, Ricard et Thonet.

In 2012 Robert Stadler receives the "Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la main" together with Siegeair's craftsmen. In 2014 his monography "Robert Stadler Invasive Shifting Absurd Exercise" is published by Editions de la Martinière.

Light installation at St. John Church in Gdansk, Poland, March 2009

In 2015 Robert Stadler exhibits his "Airspace" collection at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris. The collection is presented by two series: 'cut_paste' and 'PdT'. The series of structural objects are made from an arrangement of composite panels typically used for façades, along with sheets of marble attached to aluminium honeycomb.[1] The first series, titled 'cut_paste', takes inspiration from “the recuperation of an imaginary building site”, - says Stadler in the interview to DAMN Magazine. Different types of marble are juxtaposed to look deliberately haphazard, recalling random pieces of discarded material that are retrieved and then fashioned together.[2] Stadler explains that the name of the second series 'PdT' comes from pierre de taille, which describes the way that blocks of limestone were cut and glued together.[3] "These two series occupy the space in totally different ways,” says Stadler. “One is the logic of adding panels, so it’s very visually light and the air will be able to flow through it. The other is just the opposite—it’s massive, and the air will have to blow around it".[4] In some ways the two new series might appear to be an evolution of past projects, like last year’s "Traits d’union" public art commission, or the beautiful marble Exercise series, the BDC side table, or the aluminium works in a previous show in Vienna “Back in 5 Min”.[5]

Selected works [6]

Selected solo shows [8]

Selected group shows

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Chin, Andrea. "Robert Stadler's cut paste furniture at Carpenters Workshop Gallery". Designboom. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Sansom, Anna. "Robert Stadler - Airspace". DAMN Magazine. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Cox, Thomas. "Robert Stadler’s Airspace at Carpenters Workshop". Gallery Disegno. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  4. ↑ Slenske, Michael. "Preview Parisian Designer Robert Stadler’s Latest Solo Show". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  5. ↑ Thompson, Henrietta. "Airspace: Robert Stadler at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Studio Robert Stadler - All Projects". robertstadler.net. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  7. ↑ "Robert Stadler" (in French). 2015-04-27T09:08:11Z. Retrieved 2015-04-27. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ↑ "Studio Robert Stadler - exhibitions & installations". robertstadler.net. Retrieved 2015-04-27.

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