Guy Keulemans

Archaeologic: ceramics repaired with photoluminescent pigments

guy keulemans — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:32:22 +0000

Above photos by Dean McCartney. Photo below by the designer.

Archaeologic, Sydney Design Week images

guy keulemans — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:14:28 +0000

This stage of the Archaeologic project was exhibited during Sydney Design Week 2011 in collaboration with Henry Wilson. For other stages of this project I am using an approach adapted from kintsugi, the Japanese art of ceramic repair, embedding the photoluminescent pigment into deep glue seams running right through the bowls. For this project, Henry and [...]

Archaeologic: first image

guy keulemans — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:39:11 +0000

Broken white stoneware repaired with photoluminescent pigment.

Archaeologic at Sydney Design Week

guy keulemans — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:55:35 +0000

My new project with Henry Wilson is now on show during Sydney Design Week 2011. Details below. Archaeologic Seeing potential in the look and feel of broken things, Guy Keulemans and Henry Wilson present an act of protest against the new. The transformative power of repair is harnessed in a collection of objects which celebrate a synthesis of Japanese kintsugi, archaeology, [...]

NNancy at PYD

guy keulemans — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:21:36 +0000

From March 18 to April 19th my installation NNancy is on show at the PYD Building in Sydney. A spatial intervention built from a simple fixed modular component, the structure generatively becomes complex as it caterpillers its way up the central staircase. I, with a rotating group of assistants, are building the structure live on [...]

Kids Energy House at Archizoom.pl

guy keulemans — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:14:32 +0000

Pawel Kraus from Poland’s Archizoom has written about my project Kids Energy House, here.

WWILMA at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun

guy keulemans — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:12:57 +0000

The exhibition Tag! Base! Hide and Seek! has opened successfully at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, and WWILMA has begun. This was project was difficult for me because I was unable to travel to Torun and set it up myself, but instead sent an instruction manual to the curators. That makes a fair amount of [...]

WWILMA will begin growing soon in Torun, Poland

guy keulemans — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:29:33 +0000

Earlier this year I was asked to contribute to the soon to be released Platform 21 book. My contribution was a series of sketches proposing an structure built by the visitors of an exhibition which represents their demographic qualities by translation into physical structure. Its both interactive and generative, and somewhat like an infographic or diagram, but [...]

Artichoke and Belle articles

guy keulemans — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:07:37 +0000

I was recently featured in the July-August issue of Artichoke, Australia’s design and architecture magazine. It was a very nice profile written by Dutch design journalist Ingeborg van Lieshout, who also writes for a number of important Dutch entities like Bright, Frame and Mediamatic, as well as for her own site The Green Light District. And [...]

Superunfoldedbox write up in Art Forum

guy keulemans — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:36:32 +0000

The May 2010 issue of Art Forum has a review of the Marres Centre’s We Were Exuberant and Still Had Hope. Ettore Sottsass: works from Stockholm, 1969 exhibition. The author Saskia van der Kroef writes: ….designer Guy Keulemans provided “notes” to Sottsass’s Superbox. Keuleman’s Objects for Atheists, Superunfoldedbox, 2009, comprising different kinds of cardboard posters that [...]