7th Design Triennial Flanders 2013 – Conflict and Design (workshop 3)

Posted on 09/03/2013 by Frederic

W O R K S H O P 3

Design application

in post-conflict rehabilitation

This workshop explores the dynamics of conflict and addresses the following questions: How can we define a conflict zone within a social structure? Is the conflict mechanism an integrated component of the structure of society? Can conflict be used to instigate or activate a progressive tendency? Destruction and devastation of the environment are the prominent aftermath in a conflict zones. How can design application in post-conflict rehabilitation encourage creative synthesis for innovative thinking for new design products and new spatial morphology?

Image©Ola-Dele Kuku

WEDNESDAY 27 MARCH 2013

Location : C-Mine Genk

Duration: 1 day

Language: English speaking workshop
Number of participants: 25

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Paris Art and Design Fair 2013

Posted on 08/03/2013 by Frederic

For the 2013 Edition of PAD Paris Art + Design, Galerie Flak is pleased to present contemporary design furniture by Nigerian architect and artist Ola-Dele KUKU along with a selection of ancient fine art from Africa, Ocenia and North America.

Photo © Christian Carez

OPERA DOMESTICA II (SIMILAR DIFFERENCE 1999)

Designer – Architecte – Artiste : Ola-Dele Kuku
Bois d’aulne rouge (Alnus rubra)
Dimensions: 207 cm x 207 cm x 44 cm

Presented by

GALERIE FLAK

PAD – Paris Art and Design Fair (27th March – 1st April 2013)

Stand Number 49

EXHIBITION DATES

27 MARCH – 1st APRIL 2013

Night Opening
Friday, March 29th 11AM-10PM

Galerie Flak, established in 1990, is located 8 Rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris 6th arrondissement. Galerie Flak Art Tribal specialises in ancient tribal art from Africa, Oceania & North America as well as contemporary design. We pride ourselves in dealing in museum quality pieces with prestigious provenances. The gallery closely works with the major ethnography museums around the world (Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Rietberg Museum in Zurich, museums in Tahiti, Taiwan, Jerusalem, etc.). Julien Flak is a certified expert of the C.E.C.O.A. (The European Chamber Of Expert-Advisors In Fine Art).

PAD, pioneering event for Art and Design aficionados and collectors, has been reinventing for the past 17 years the Cabinet d’Amateur and the notion of eclecticism, anticipating the esthetic aspirations of its time.

Esplanade des Feuillants, Entrance 234 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris Métro : Tuileries

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‘Speaking in Vernacular’ (Monograph) 2012

Posted on 08/03/2013 by Frederic

SPEAKING IN VERNACULAR Ola – Dele Kuku

Monograph – 2012 – 178 pages

Texts by : Sara Weyns F. K ehinde Oluyadi Chika Unigwe Roger Ndéma Kingué

Layout : Wilfrieda Paessens

With the participation of : Philippe Laeremans Van Maradi Foundation

Ola-Dele Kuku ‘Speaking in Vernacular’ at Calameo

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Ola-Dele Kuku at the Design Museum Gent

Posted on 30/06/2012 by Frederic

“You cannot see, hear or feel ideas. Design and architecture are thus a way for ideas to materialize “

Until the end of August 2012

Similar differences

Until the end of August 2012, the furniture object “Similar differences“, designed by Ola-Dele Kuku, a designer / architect with Nigerian roots, presented in the Design museum Gent. The remarkable storage cabinet is part of a series. Ola Dele-Kuku drew this architectural object, the implementation was done by the VTI woodworking students from Roeselare. The collaboration illustrates the social conscience of the designer / architect, who may also be called philosopher, artist and researcher.