Ross Lovegrove, after graduating from the RCA in 1983 has seemingly worked with everyone in the design industry, from Apple and Sony to Driade, Cappellini and louis Vuitton. Lovegrove curated the first permanent collection at the Design Museum, London in 1993 and has had solo exhibitions of his work in MOMA New York. Winner of numerous international awards his work has been published and exhibited internationally including the MOMA NY, Guggenheim Museum NY, Axis Centre Japan, Pompidou Centre, Paris.
The piece explores the nature of the material and form making technology in milled foam and carbon skinning. It is a method of convergence ; aligning the digital process with the high and rarefied craft of manual carbon surfacing. This combination achieves an incredible sense of taught dynamic like a technical skin over a vacuum.
Landcape, a large landscape of elements that appear to stretch out through an elastic skin. They suggest rigid deliberate forms that unite as one entity in the process ; always appearing in a state of vertical forming. Made from expanded cellular frp it is deceptively lightweight, durable and modern in its construction ; directly relates to an industrial consumer ‘moulded’ products from bars of chocolate to car bodies.
Fourvoid is a holistic, pure material expression made from corian. It is a seamless construction that dematerializes into white space with a soap like physicality. The voids relate to anatomical interface leaving a liquid organic structure remaining.
