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DOUBLE SPACE BY BARBER & OSGERBY AT THE V&A
A temporary installation in the iconic Raphael Gallery of the V&A
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, founders of design studio Barber Osgerby, have worked with BMW to develop Double Space, a kinetic installation on display at the V&A during the London Design Festival.
The installation consists of two lightweight aluminum structures that are suspended in the Raphael Gallery of the museum, a space that houses the Raphael Cartoons, seven large paintings completed by the artist in 1515 for his Sistine Chapel tapestries. With their polished external skin, the massive structures (each measures 15m by 9m) move in a barely audible and meticulously calculated choreography, mirroring and contorting the iconic works of art.
Motors hidden within the structures rotate them at once together and then separately. The soft movement and the sheer volume of the installation within the vast space comes together to create new and almost overwhelming perspectives that somehow bring history and present day a bit closer.