Atelier Van Lieshout

Drill

2015

Foam, steel
180 x 60 x 250 cm

AVL wants to start a Neo-Industrial Revolution by showing sculptures of machines and tools like the Drill. It wants to reinterpret and revalue the factories and manual labour of the Industrial Revolution, by creating sculptures, made in an improvised style with contemporary materials. AVL wants to see a return to the idealism of production, where the shape and character of the material determine the design. Sculptures of machines and tools are an ode to vanished industry. These machines not only refer to the romantic longing to industry but further to this they will be honored to emphasize the fact that they brought the Western society freedom, wealth and prosperity.

Joep van Lieshout explains: “Industry used to play a vital role, as it enabled societies based on farming to reach a higher level of development and prosperity. Nowadays, however, everything that reminds us of physical production has been banned from our society, and has subsequently been removed from our sight. Our role is only to design, no longer to produce. The only thing left in our sanitized world is consumption: retail, recreation, restaurants. AVL wants to protect Industry. Industry and production should be a part of our society, as should be manual labour, pollution and hardship. As a society we cannot just consume and use, real products should be made and grown.”

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