11.12.2024 – 11.05.2025
After more than 25 years, the MAK is once again dedicating a major exhibition to the ‘enfant terrible’ of the Wiener Werkstätte. PECHE POP shows the fascinating impact that Peche’s work had and still has on 20th and 21st century design: from the Art Deco style to postmodernism and the present day. As early as the 1920s/30s, there were a number of Peche epigones that primarily reproduced individual motifs. He responded to the geometry of WW founders Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser with opulent designs derived from nature; he lent everyday objects a complexity that deliberately undermined logic and utility. Peche underpinned his approach theoretically with his book The Burning Bush, in which he called for the ‘overcoming of utility’ in order to achieve a new artistic expression. From 1911, the trained architect turned to arts and crafts and experimented with various materials – silver, glass, ceramics, leather and paper. He designed jewellery, furniture and exhibition displays as well as sensational fabric and wallpaper patterns.
PECHE POP – Dagobert Peche and his traces in the present
11.12.2024 – 11.05.2025
Vienna, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts
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