Art & Design Atomium Museum: the plastic collection
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/311192180
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320129208
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320130535
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320131222
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  alternate name: Plastics--Collectors and collecting--Exhibitions
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  alternate name: Industrial design--History--20th century--Exhibitions
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  alternate name: Plastics as art material--21st century
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  alternate name: Plastics--Design--Exhibitions
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  alternate name: Plastics as art material--20th century
abstract: A new museum and art center, the ADAM (Art & Design Atomium Museum) aims to become a center for art and design exhibitions in Brussels. Installed on the Heysel, the ADAM is housed 200m from the Atomium. It has a permanent exhibition of the collection Plasticarium. Containing plastic items from the 1950s through the 1980s, this collection is unique in the world. It brings together hundreds of plastic items, ranging from the conventional to art work. Other areas offer temporary exhibitions dedicated to the art and design of the twentieth century and today. The 500-piece permanent exhibition, named the Plasticarium by the original collector, Philippe Decelle, is a kaleidoscope of vacuums, Tupperware, typewriters, radios, blow-up chairs, lamps, desks, and even old Apple desktops: a sea of polychromatic polymers. They cast a nostalgic sheen through the industrial and open permanent exhibition space, inviting guests to view the smooth mass-produced items of a bygone era without distraction. The otherworldly shapes are the hallmarks of international designers and visual artists such as César Arman, Joe Colombo, Verner Panton, and Evelyne Axell.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310192181
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310192182
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/311192180
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310192178
language: dut
language: eng
language: fre
language: ger
name: The plastic collection
subject of: Statement
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  text: Parallel texts in English, French, Dutch, and German; translated from the French.
subject of: Statement
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  text: Includes translation
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