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Exhibition Bakelite Paradise. Santa Clara Area. Seville

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By AndaluNet on 16/05/2018

From 17 May to 15 July.
Schedule:Tuesday to Saturday 10 a 14 h y de 17 a 20 h, and on Sundays and holidays 10 a 15 h.
Santa Clara Area. Seville

Bakelite Paradise. The material that made modern
The collection "bakelite and other plastics. Rafael Ortiz Collection ", Sevilla is located in one of the most complex and unknown collections of our city. It started almost twenty years ago, has been, timidly, as advancing knowledge grew older, because paraRafael Ortiz collecting is another way to learn. Knowledge of the media Bakelite born the first pieces of the collection, then go deep into those other types of plastics that have completed the collection. They started when still shopping auction "on line" were unusual, the patient research at flea markets in Spain, and in some other countries, It was the most common resource. Time and learning about materials, objects and designers, they have been refined eye and increasingly focusing their interests, or at least making it aware of the various branches in which his collection of objects was diversifying. Little by little, and controlled patience, He has been finding as desired pieces as Polaroid exquisite lamps designed by Otto Wolff or Walter Dorwin Teague, sophisticated camera Purma designed by Raymond Loewy or the fantastic "The master colorless cocktail shaker".

However, have not been large pieces their only goal, because on more than one occasion we have seen how it focused on the creations of an author until virtually all known production. Special mention should be made in this regard to its large selection of pieces from Eduardo Fornells. The creator of some of the most beautiful boxes market is well represented in the collection thanks to the perseverance and fixation. The same has happened with some more concrete materials, where obsession has made him achieve the most significant samples. So in your collection there is a considerable variety of pieces of "Ebena", Belgian brand factory that produced just pieces between 1921 and 1931. By collecting complete your system must say that many times he has been directing and diversifying its collection function be forming remarkable typological sets were gradually filling. Your desktop materials, including set pieces designed by John Dickinson are among 1948 and 1951, assembly materiel, its section cameras, audiovisual character parts or items for the smoker surprised with its collections of household goods, jewelry or toys.

What started as a simple hobby is in the process of becoming one of the most significant collections known Spanish plastics. Cataloging has already started a few years ago and gradually progresses increasingly incorporating designer names, authors, datings, classifications of subjects and a whole host of data that are joining and opening new fields collection.

"Bakelite and other plastics. Rafael Ortiz Collection "has become a benchmark for private collectors and museums with sometimes compete and win for the quality of its parts. Is this, so, a universe plastic that has been selected patient but insistently, pursued, found and incorporated to obtain a broad view of what is the most contemporary history of society, as we can see in this new sign of ICAS, this time we have entitled "Bakelite Paradise. The material that made us modern ", to conform to what at the time meant the emergence of the plastic in the lives of each and every one of those who once sensed in this material the possibility of utopia a reality.