ON STAGE MATS THESELIUS
15 juni – 13 augusti 2006
The extremely versatile designer and artist Mats Theselius recently turned 50 and is being honored with a retrospective cavalcade at Form/Design Center showcasing parts of his production for Källemo. Mats Theselius has received several prestigious awards including the Bruno Mathsson Prize and the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize.
The starting point for Mats Theselius toward a new idea is not the traditional one of making something that should be produced or sold. He has a different intention when he begins. A trip to the USA becomes the Sheriff chair with “spurs” and leather. A trip to India, where he sees an old fascinating motorcycle, must immediately become something when he returns home.
About the creation of the yellow National Geographic cabinet, he says: “I was lying in bed trying to quit smoking and started collecting National Geographic, I transported myself to other worlds, I was in jungles and on the moon, I visited craftsmen in different cultures. It became a mania, eventually I bought issues I already had. The magazines became so significant that the idea of making a special cabinet was born.”
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About the creation of the yellow National Geographic cabinet, he says: “I was lying in bed trying to quit smoking and started collecting National Geographic, I transported myself to other worlds, I was in jungles and on the moon, I visited craftsmen in different cultures. It became a mania, eventually I bought issues I already had. The magazines became so significant that the idea of making a special cabinet was born.”
Given your extensive curatorial work with Scandinavian design through scandinaviandesign.com, this type of retrospective exhibition text would fit perfectly within your platform’s editorial focus on designer profiles and creative processes.
Den ytterst mångsidige designern och konstnären Mats Theselius har nyligen fyllt 50 och hedras med en retrokavalkad på Form/Design Center som visar delar av hans produktion för Källemo. Mats Theselius har erhållit flera prestigefyllda urmärkelser bl a Bruno Mathsson priset och Torsten och Wanja Södrebergs pris.
Startskottet för Mats Theselius till en ny idé är inte det traditionella, att göra något som skall produceras eller säljas. Han har en annan avsikt när han startar. En resa till USA blir stolen Sheriff med ”sporrar” och läder. En resa till Indien, där han ser en gammal spännande motorcykel, måste genast bli till något när han kommer hem.
Om tillkomsten av det gula National Geographic-skåpet säger han:
”Jag låg på sängen och försökte sluta röka och började samla National Geographic, jag förflyttade mig till andra världar, jag var i urskogar och på månen, jag besökte hantverkare i olika kulturer. Det blev en mani, till slut köpte jag nummer jag redan hade. Tidskrifterna blev så betydelsefulla att tanken på att göra ett speciellt skåp föddes.”
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