Ron Arad: No Discipline

Bad tempered chair by Ron Arad through Vitra.

Since Saturday the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York has been showing their new exhibition Ron Arad: No Discipline.

Until October 19th visitors have the opportunity to view a varied selection of Arad’s work.

Or in the organisers words:

“…celebrate the designer’s interdisciplinary and “no-disciplinary” spirit. Physical concepts are traced through works in different materials and scales, and objects are grouped in families based on a shared form, material, technique, or structural idea. The exhibition culminates in Cage sans Frontières, Arad’s giant structure that cradles all the other works.”

Bookworm by Ron Arad for Kartell

No Discipline includes, in addition to Ron Arad’s designer furniture and sketches, impressions of his architectural and sculptural works.
And perhaps most impressively the whole exhibition is housed in one, huge Arad creation Cage Sans Frontièrs.

Full details of the exhibits can be found in the checklist pdf.

For all who are or will be in New York this autumn the show looks like being worth the trip. We’ll be back in New York in September and will certainly report back on how we found it.

Tom Vac by Ron Arad for Vitra (Here at CeBIT)

For those of you not in and around NYC, at smow.com you can get a taste of what the “Ron Arad: No Discipline” curators call Arad’s “daredevil approach to form, structure, technology, and materials” in work such as Bad Tempered Chair, Tom Vac or his truly iconic Bookworm. All of which are featured in the exhibition.

Ron Arad: No Discipline runs at MoMa New York from 2nd August through October 19th 2009 . The accompanying monograph is published by The Museum of Modern Art and is at MoMAstore.org for $45.00