Kunstgewerbemuseum: You May Also Like Robert Stadler

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You May Also Like: Robert Stadler

Working at the intersection of design, the visual arts and critical practice, Robert Stadler uses design to question social issues and imagine new ways of conceiving objects. You May Also Like: Robert Stadler marks the first survey exhibition of his work. More than seventy of his pieces are exhibited together. Following on from his interest in objects of all kinds, Stadler has enriched the exhibition with a careful selection of historical and contemporary objects presented next to his own designs. Alongside objects from Stadler´s own collection, a selection of twenty masterpieces and unknown artifacts from eight of the SKD collections form an integral part of the exhibition. The combination of objects from various periods results in a cross-historical “community of objects” that creates a network of meanings around five themes.

Exhibition Site Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau

DATES 18/03/2017—25/06/2017

(1) Artificial Intelligence, (2) the Morphing of the Natural into the Artificial, (3) Forms of Random/Control and Digital Fragmentation, (4) Instability and Fetishism, and (5) Informed Objects are followed by an installation without walls or corridors unfolding in front of an oversized back-lit screen.

Büste ohne Gesicht — **Kopffragment einer klassischen Göttinnenstatue, 1. Jh. n. Chr. (?)** nach einem griechischen Vorbild des späten 5. Jh. v. Chr., graugelblicher Marmor (pentelisch), 20,3 x 15 x 13 cm, Skulpturensammlun

kleine, viereckige Platte auf vier verschränkten Beinen — **Aymeric, 2014** Robert Stadler, AluCore©, aluminium, 52 x 37 x 37 cm

Holzmaske mit zum "O" geformtem Mund — **Männermaske, wohl Süddeutschland oder Österreich** 1. Hälfte 19. Jh., Holz, 25 x 16 cm, Museum für Sächsische Volkskunst

Tischplatte, die versetzt auf einem quaderartigen Ständer aufliegt — **Alicia, 2012** Robert Stadler, Olimpo Striato Marmor, 42 x 42,5 x 44,5 cm, courtesy of the designer und Carpenters Workshop Gallery

Taschenuhr mit kaum erkennbaren Ziffernblättern, Brandspuren — **Taschenuhr (brandbeschädigt)** Paul Kindermann (19. Jh.), Bautzen um 1815, Silber, Email, Stahl, Ø 6 cm, Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon

Hammer mit wellenförmigem Griff — **Understand What You Love (Hammer #2), 2015** Robert Stadler, Eschenholz, Stahl, 29,5 x 10,5 x 2 cm

Statue eines Pavian, der auf allen Vieren steht — **Pavian, Hilter bei Osnabrück, um 1970** Steinzeug, hellgelber Scherben, Glasurbemalung, 58,4 x 51,5 x 24,0 cm, Kunstgewerbemuseum

Foto von Robert Stadler — **Robert Stadler** Foto: Jacques Gavard

This network highlights the challenge of Stadler´s unique designs: the exhibition is a specific surface that links the “community of objects” exhibited to the digital world. This formula is connected to the multi-layered nature of Stadler’s own profile. It also suggests how this particular profile “functions” with both the objects and the ideas within them. But in a world where the mechanisms of e-business are based upon “indifference and desire”, combining the expression “you may also like” with Robert Stadler’s name as the title critically highlights what sums up an individual on the Internet today: the creation of a profile and the gathering of likes linked to it.