Stucco Storico
Bureau Europa
Exhibition Design*
November, 2018
Bureau Europa
Exhibition Design*
November, 2018
Plastic moldings, styrofoam ceiling roses, marble-patterned wallpaper: the ornamentation of today’s domestic interior seems more standardized and readymade than ever before. In fact, the apparent seriality we encounter today has always been there. The design of this exhibition questions notions of seriality and originality. Does an isolated vitrine turn any ubiquitous object into something original? Or do original fragile artifacts lose their uniqueness by exhibiting them in rows of identical vitrines; or even within a modular grid? What if originality can be found in the ingenious application of serially manufactured products? Hence, can ornamentation arise from a readymade material like gypsum board, originally colored to indicate specific characteristics like moisture– or fire–resistance?
*curated by Remco Beckers and Saskia van Stein. Graphic design by Hansje van Halem. Photos by Johannes Schwartz.






