The Greater Beirut-based Carwan Gallery presents a new exhibition by design and research collective Rotor. Titled 'purple, turquoise, pink (brown along the edges)', the show was co-curated by the gallery in collaboration with Milanese studio Actant Visuelle and presents the Belgian collective’s work on material and colour research

更大的基于贝鲁特的卡万画廊通过设计和研究集体转子展示了一个新的展览。名为“紫色，绿松石，粉色（沿边缘棕色）”，该展览是由画廊共同合作，与米兰斯工作室Actuple VisVise合作，并介绍比利时集体的材料和色彩研究工作。多年来，旋翼团队收集了各种各样的物体，它们定期地引入室内和工程中，给它们带来新的生命和潜力。

这场展览汇集了各种各样的作品，从比利时的牛皮，谈到该国的肉类制造方法，到从贝鲁特的非法渔民棚屋中打捞出来的一系列面板(最初是诗意的淡色)。收藏中的其他物品包括工业标本，这些标本在没有达到生产标准时被丢弃，或者是制造剩菜。

展览宣言上写道：“机械设备不会自动生产标准产品，而是需要精心的人类编排才能保持这种错觉。”这些作品的美，在这里展示在他们的原始状态，突出了集体的严肃和几乎百科全书的精神。他们谨慎的展示只是一种判断力的暗示，让观众对大规模生产、完美和材料等主题进行自己的探索。

它是一个强大的对象集合，它的抽象比语言更响亮，在一个极小的显示中，在画廊新打开的展示空间中提供了一个强大的存在。

The exhibition includes artifacts found and gathered from different sources by the collective's members. This series of panels was salvaged from the ruins of fisherman huts in Dalieh, Beirut. The illegal huts were destroyed in 2015 by the Lebanese authorities, making way for a controversial, large scale private development on Beirut’s historical – and last remaining – public access sea front

Shown flat to enhance its scale and shape, the displays include an acrylic fibre carpet from a living room, taken from a social housing complex in Antwerp. The border of the carpet shows the former location of a chimney and a heater, while the wear on the surface illustrates the trajectories across the room, from hallway, bedroom and kitchen

The pieces’ beauty, shown here in their raw states, highlights the collective’s serious and almost encyclopaedic ethos. Their discreet display gives just a hint of judgment, leaving viewers to develop their own explorations of themes such as mass production, perfection and materials

It’s a powerful collection of objects, the abstraction of which speaks louder than words, in a minimal display affording a powerful presence in the gallery

Carwan Gallery has been a Beirut design destination since its opening in 2010

Another view of the large scale gallery display; on the right is part of a floor produced by AMO for a Prada catwalk set in 2013. 'I want to keep this for a reason,' explains Miuccia Prada, who has been archiving all the show sets she commissioned from the Dutch firm. 'These objects, they carry a history, a meaning. I believe that objects sometimes tell more stories than people'  

The back of the displays include information on each specimen's origin

Other items in the collection include industrial specimens that were discarded when they failed to reach production standards, or were manufacturing leftovers

A series of panels displaying the colour transition of the PVC coating on a polyester backing  

Pictured left: PU droolings in foamed polyurethane: these objects are made of the drippings that normally occur below the injected mold in a carrousel production line for footwear. Pictured right: samples of photovoltaic cells produced by a Belgian manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy shortly after. In a last attempt to compete with cheaper Chinese PV panels, the company experimented with submerging silicon wafers in acid baths to obtain vivid colours that were hoped to appeal to the taste of architects

Displayed on a flat surface, cut-outs from the production of bathroom tops in stone – the oval shapes are removed to make space for sinks  

Obtained from a deconstruction site in Belgium, these glass panels were produced in the 1980s using three sheets of glass glued together and reinforced with a resin. With age, the resin proved less stable than anticipated, resulting in a remarkable texture. While this was never the intention of the producer, this chemical reaction is reminiscent of traditional glass blowing techniques where small bubbles of air or other chemical agents are inserted in a glass mass to create texture

Off-colour polyethylene cups produced by injection-molding

One of the most powerful pieces in the show is this leather skin, from a Belgian Blanc-Bleu-Belge cow. This species is crossbred to increase meat production; as a result, the majority of births need to be given by Caesarian, leaving four cuts visible on the hide

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