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SUMMARY:Knoll Lecture: Aldo Bakker
DESCRIPTION:‘TO CREATE’ with designer Aldo Bakker \n\nEach year\, thro
 ugh the generosity of an endowment from Knoll International\, the Knoll Le
 cture Series at Cranbrook Academy of Art brings a renowned designer to cam
 pus for a free public lecture to promote the importance of design and buil
 d discussions with the Academy students. \n\nAldo Bakker will deliver thi
 s year’s lecture\, ‘TO CREATE.’ Bakker’s designs become an express
 ion of ontological questions\, where objects become something more like ch
 aracters with their own sense of being. Bakker claims that by positioning 
 his works as individual characters\, he forces his audience to shift its p
 erception. “We are no longer looking at an inanimate object on which we
  project our knowledge of style\, shape or material value. Instead\, these
  creatures invite us to engage in a conversation about their behaviour\, t
 heir uncertainties\, their beliefs\, and their native tongue. We do not ap
 proach them as buyers or even as art historians. We become their fellow tr
 avellers\, questioning ourselves as much as they question us\,” Bakker s
 ays. \n\nMany of Aldo Bakker’s works are unique pieces. Several are pro
 duced in small editions. Next to his independent studio production Bakker 
 has also created commissioned works for companies like Georg Jensen\, Kar
 akter\, Puiforcat\, Sèvres and Swarovski. His work has been acquired by 
 museums like Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam)\, MoMa (NY)\, Cooper H
 ewitt (NY)\, mudac (Lausanne)\, Philadelphia Museum of Art\, Centre Pomp
 idou (Paris)\, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam\, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Vict
 oria &amp\; Albert Museum (London). In 2016 and 2017 a major overview of h
 is work was presented in the exhibition Pause (CID Grand Hornu\, mudac 
 Lausanne). Other solo exhibitions were staged at Atelier Courbet (NY)\, G
 allery Libby Sellars (London)\, Looiersgracht 60 (Amsterdam)\, Villa Noa
 illes in Hyeres and Vivid Gallery (Rotterdam). \n\nIn 2016 Alice Rawstho
 rn and Hans den Hartog Jager edited the monograph Aldo Bakker (NAI 010 Pu
 blishers NL). Aldo Bakker received the Wallpaper Award 2011\, First Prize 
 at DDA 2009 and First Prize at Bornholm Glass (2008). \n\nFor more inform
 ation about Aldo Bakker\, visit http://www.aldobakker.com/work \n\n&nbsp
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