Material Contest “Look Alike”
Material exhibition for the 17th tour of the
HfG Offenbach in July 2014.
From old wood wallpaper to leather tiles, the hands-on exhibition project showed the latest developments in the field of decorative material surfaces.
The previous seminar in the summer semester of 2014, led by Prof. Petra Kellner and Dipl.-Des. Knut Völzke, dealt with the phenomenon of new and realistic-looking imitation surfaces that achieve a previously unattainable quality through digital printing and coating processes.
The "Look Alike" project was developed for the tour, in which the audience found themselves somewhere between fascination and horror and, as part of a "material contest", was asked to place their voice, in the form of a small acrylic star, in front of the selected material. Make your decision!
Seminar leader: Prof. Petra Kellner and
Dipl. Des. Knut Völzke
Students: Nikita Bagdulin, Karl Becker, Rafael Berti, Valentin Brück, Lisa Chiera, Joong-Youn Cho, Julia Haase, Yves Kaprolat, Maja Kröger, Valentin Maskow, Markus Mau, Bennet May, Anna-Lena Möckl, Julian Staubach, Catalina Villa Melendez.
Year of creation: 2014
The tour exhibition included 33 samples with corresponding short descriptions, which reflected the current state of development of digitally industrially produced imitation surfaces.
Reproduced veneer «Grey Oak» made from three-dimensionally molded, dyed and newly cut poplar wood raw material.
Innenausbauplatte aus gebürsteter Fichte-Dreischichtplatte mit UV- und Inkjet-Druck.
Interior panel with direct coating made of decorative paper and melamine resin, manufactured using the synchronous structure embossing process.
Bezugsstoff aus Polyurethan und Polyamid.
Interior finishing coating made of high-pressure laminate with decorative paper and synthetic resins.
Wall and floor tiles as porcelain stoneware made of clay, quartz, kaolin and feldspar with embossed, printed and glazed surface.
In addition to the surface patterns, part of the exhibition also included a "placebo station" with tablets, chocolate and other apparently edible substances. But only one exhibit was really genuine and edible. It was cocoa beans, which visitors could taste after solving the puzzle. An experience that underlined that we are often no longer able to distinguish between the original and the surrogate and sometimes cannot recognize the "real" by taste, as we rarely know it as an untreated natural substance.
