Valerian Gagnaire

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Design

  Programme

  MA Design Products, 2010

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• A designer can go through a period of creative chaos and have a pessimistic glance at his own practice. He can be filled with a feeling of worthlessness, and therefore want to question his role and the legitimacy of his work within a society already largely saturated with objects.

  As a designer, I need to produce designs; and the only valid justification is the expression of my own self. From that perspective even function is superficial and can be reduced to its minimum. I invite you to meet a person, and his plastic and formal universe. My design practice is guided by spontaneity, the discovering of new places, the contrast of materials and the clash between object, function and sculpture.

• Degrees

• Postgraduate, Design Product, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, Switzerland, 2008; BA, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, Switzerland, 2007; Propedeutique, Jewellery, Ecole des Arts Decoratif, Geneva, 2004

• Experience

• Industrial Design workshop assistant, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2007-8

• Exhibitions

• Ron Arad: Restless (architectural playgrounds events), Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2010; International Student Exhibition, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan, 2009; Design Parade Festival, Villa Noaille, Hyeres, France, 2009; Talent 2008 Dutch Design Week, Designhuis Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2008