Jerszy Seymour
Jerszy Seymour (* 1968 in Berlin ) is a British-Canadian designer and artist with residence / workshop in London and Berlin.
Live and act
Seymour grew up in London . After studying engineering at the South Bank Polytechnic from 1987 to 1990, he studied industrial design at the Royal College of Art from 1991 to 1993 . In 1999 he temporarily moved to Milan , where he began realizing his own projects - including “House in a Box” (2002), “Scum” (2003) and “Tape” (2003). Since 2004 he has been living in London and Berlin again.
Experimental projects are the focus of his work. His work has a strong conceptual background and deals with the concept of "dirty art" and the way we can inhabit the planet and restructure our understanding. At the same time, he also works for well-known companies such as Magis, Vitra , Moulinex , SFR, IDEE and others.
The first comprehensive project series began in 2002–2006 with the production of space-spanning “Scum” installations. Coming from the Latin Schiuma , it denotes a bubble-like foaming and in English the negatively connoted scrap - the lowest of all things and people. The scrap installations use the free development of polyurethane foam to create so-called "zero" situations.
The following series of installations "Living Systems" 2007 dealt with the relationship of the individual to consumption, production and existential survival. As a contemporary version of Henry David Thoreau's "Walden", the "Living Systems" formed an investigation into autonomous systems in which potatoes were synthesized in plastic ("polylactate acetate") in order to produce a series of objects for everyday life. The instinctual technique of making ultimately became more decisive than the attempt at autonomy.
The series of installations that dealt with the “amateur” (in the true sense of the loving, passionate) from 2008–2011 was an investigation of the basic structure of society that capitalism tried to artificially ignore. The exhibition series "The First Supper", "Salon des Amateurs", "Erotic Production" and "Coalition of Amateurs", which followed the idea of "means of production in the hands of the people", used polycapralactones wax as a metaphor for people, things and ideas connect to.
Then an attempt was made to bring the idea of the “amateur” series into reality by founding a school. Following the example of past radical schools and with the understanding of "education as a spaceship tour through the universe", the "Dirty Art Department" was created in 2011 in Amsterdam as a master's program at the Sandberg Institute / Rietveld Academy as an ongoing project.
At the same time, the 2013 installation “The Universe Wants to Play” designed the idea of a physical and psychological sphere as a playground for thoughts. This installation encompassed a wide range of materials and production techniques - all with different psychological metaphors (id, libido, instinct, ego, rationality, super ego, social awareness, etc.) that could be collaged with one another around different physical and metaphorical constellations and an environment for Designing games with your own psychology.
The umbrella project “New Dirty Enterprises” was first presented as a conceptual work of art in 2012 as part of the abc contemporary art fair in Berlin. Manifest is to influence reality and penetrate everyday life. New Dirty Entperises forms the basis for an ongoing series of artistic works. Works completed to date are New Dirty Enterprises Stock Offering, Pizza Franchise, The Council for the Progenesis of the Archaic Festival, Cinematic Dream Production and Extra National Assembly # 1.
His work has been exhibited at the Design Museum London , Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Gallery Kreo in Paris, Galerie Crone in Berlin and at MARTa Herford . He was guest of honor at Design Brussels 2005. His work is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Fonds National de Art Contemporain France and the Musée d'Art Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg . He has taught at the Royal College of Art in London, at the Domus Academy in Milan, at the ECAL in Lausanne, at the HfG Karlsruhe , at the UDK Berlin and as part of the Vitra Design Workshops in France. Since 2011 he has been leading the master's program in 'Dirty Art Department' at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
Awards
- 2014, Kölner Klopfer, Cologne International School of Design
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jerszy Seymour received the "Kölner Klopfer" 2014. April 17, 2014, accessed January 22, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seymour, Jerszy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian product designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |