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 Artists 

Unfold & Tim Knapen

Atelier NL (NL)
Maarten Baas (NL)
Pieke Bergmans (NL)
David Bowen (USA)
Oscar Diaz (UK)
Edhv (NL)
Front (SW)
Martino Gamper (UK)
Simon Heijdens (UK/NL)
Eric Klarenbeek (NL)
Sofie Lachaert & Luc D’hanis (B)
Laurent Liefooghe(B)
Lawrence Malstaf(B)
Bruno Munari (IT)
Markus Schinwald (AU)
Studio Glithero (UK)
Studio Libertiny(NL)
Tjep. (NL)
Unfold Tim Knapen (B)

After graduating from the Design Academy in Eindhoven, Claire Warnier and Dries Verbruggen founded the design bureau Unfold in Antwerp in 2002. It was to become a platform for all their past and future creations. The duo focuses on three overlapping domains: ‘calculation and production methods’, ‘spatial design and products’, and ‘theory and composition (compilation)’.

Tim Knapen graduated as a graphic designer from St-Lucas in Antwerp, but refuses to be pigeonholed as a ‘graphicist’. He consciously seeks out the fringe area between applied and autonomous work. His graduate project ‘GODMODE’ is a fine example of this attitude. Knapen is since 2008 member of ‘de Indianen’, together with three fellow designers. Their work varies from graphic work and the elaboration of web systems to the realisation of interactive installations.

L’Artisan Electronique (2010)
For L’Artisan Electronique, Unfold created -aside from the ceramic printer- a virtual pottery wheel in collaboration with Tim Knapen. This pottery wheel gives visitors a chance to ‘turn’ their own forms. At regular intervals, a selection of these designs is printed in porcelain clay and exhibited in the space.
In L’Artisan Electronique, pottery, one of the oldest artisanal techniques for making utilitarian objects, is combined with new digital techniques. The virtual pottery wheel was realsied by means of a 3D-scanner and digital design software. However, the installation still clearly refers to the artisanal process of working in clay. The printing process imitates the traditional technique used by ceramicists, in which the form is built up by stacking coils of clay.