{"id":2707,"date":"2015-09-23T16:28:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T16:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2015-09-23T16:31:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T16:31:46","slug":"mise-en-abyme-a-colorful-and-immersive-about-the-renaissance-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/events\/mise-en-abyme-a-colorful-and-immersive-about-the-renaissance-period","title":{"rendered":"“Mise-en-abyme”, a colorful and immersive about the Renaissance period"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In collaboration with Johnson Tiles, designers Laetitia de Allegri and Matteo Fogale have created Mise-en-abyme, a colourful and immersive installation for the bridge over the Medieval and Renaissance galleries in the V&A at the London Design Festival 2015.<\/p>\n

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The centerpeices of the London Design Festival\u00a0are its\u00a0commissions, the Landmark Projects created with the help of the\u00a0generous supporters. For these Landmark Projects the Festival\u00a0commission some of the world\u2019s greatest architects and designers to create pieces of work in London\u2019s best-loved public spaces.<\/p>\n

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Related:\u00a0The Shooting Star\u00a0sculpture\u00a0at London Design Festival 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The London Design Festival \u00a02015 participant Laetitia grew up in Switzerland and graduated in Industrial design from ECAL \u2018Ecole Cantonale d\u2019Art de Lausanne\u2019. Matteo was born in Uruguay and moved to Italy where he graduated in Industrial design at IUAV Facolta\u2019 di Design e Arti in Venice.<\/p>\n

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They are both fascinated by the discovery of one-point perspective during the Renaissance period, so they\u00a0created a landscape of overlapping semi-transparent shapes playing\u00a0with the viewers sense of perspective. \u201cMise-en-abyme\u201d\u00a0is a French term that literally translates as \u201cplaced into abyss\u201d, and refers to the experience of walking through the installation.<\/p>\n

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Creating an illusion of exaggerated depth that draws the viewer into the work, the grout lines of the tiles lining the bridge represent the perspective grid lines found on Renaissance drawings, . Each tile features a custom pattern of gradating colour that makes the landscape across the bridge appear to open outward or to close inward, depending on the visitor\u2019s point of view.<\/p>\n

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Contrasting with the pale interiors of the surrounding galleries and the creamy marble sculptures within them, the designers have created a\u00a0coloured acrylic panels layered across the length of the bridge. These \u00a0semi-transparent panels also reference the V&A\u2019s colourful glass and stained glass collections displayed in nearby galleries. As visitors move across the bridge, they pass through increasingly small openings in these panels, a literal design interpretation of perspective translated to three-dimensional space that offers an immersive experience.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe wanted to create an abstractminstallation with a strong visual effect that is light and floating, in contrast to the heavy marble surroundings in these galleries,\u201d say the designers. \u201cMise-en-abyme is not just something to look at. It is something to experience.\u201d \u2013 said the designers.<\/p>\n