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Montreux, Switzerland
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The Collection
Montreux, Switzerland
Photography: Dylan Perrenoud
Claude Nobs had a country-ski accident on the 24th of December 2012. He passed away after days in coma, on the 10th of January leaving behind an incredible legacy: a worldwide known jazz and music festival and a fabulous collection of all kind of things related to music history. For the 2013 Montreux Jazz Festival the idea of creating a new space to expose publically part of this collection was matured and seemed a necessity in order to pay an immediate tribute to the defunct director.
A team of designers (BUREAU A) and curators (Veronica Tracchia and Mauricio Estrada Munoz) was commissioned the urgent task to develop an exhibition project and to bring it to realisation in a rather short period of time. THE COLLECTION concept emerges from the idea of a dynamic exhibition, one that can be looked at and listened to, but also on that can be manipulated continuously, accepting change with a sort of non-sacral relation to the exhibited objects. Accepting the paradox of an inhabited and playful Sol Lewitt sculpture THE COLLECTION is a modern “wunderkammer” of the life of Claude Nobs and the history of the festival.
The central piece of the space is an inhabited library, specially conceived to host the 40’000 LP collection of Nobs (the audio visual archives of Nobs have been granted with the Unesco certification). This 25 meters long structure is decomposed into two libraries and a central passageway. Disc jockeys and specialised staff can enter the library and use it as an active archive, playing LP sets to the public. The structure is thus the support that can enable the professionals to bring life to the exhibited collection.
As a rather subtle reference, the library is conceived completely in wood to recall the warm and intimate atmosphere of Nobs chalet where many parties with incredible artist were held throughout the years. The structure is as obsessive as the collector’s mind. Based on a unique wood beam section and assembled in a very repetitive manner, with the rigour of a minimal sculpture. Pieces are bolted with brass wing nuts, easily dismountable and completely modular.
Claude Nobs had a country-ski accident on the 24th of December 2012. He passed away after days in coma, on the 10th of January leaving behind an incredible legacy: a worldwide known jazz and music festival and a fabulous collection of all kind of things related to music history. For the 2013 Montreux Jazz Festival the idea of creating a new space to expose publically part of this collection was matured and seemed a necessity in order to pay an immediate tribute to the defunct director.
A team of designers (BUREAU A) and curators (Veronica Tracchia and Mauricio Estrada Munoz) was commissioned the urgent task to develop an exhibition project and to bring it to realisation in a rather short period of time. THE COLLECTION concept emerges from the idea of a dynamic exhibition, one that can be looked at and listened to, but also on that can be manipulated continuously, accepting change with a sort of non-sacral relation to the exhibited objects. Accepting the paradox of an inhabited and playful Sol Lewitt sculpture THE COLLECTION is a modern “wunderkammer” of the life of Claude Nobs and the history of the festival.
The central piece of the space is an inhabited library, specially conceived to host the 40’000 LP collection of Nobs (the audio visual archives of Nobs have been granted with the Unesco certification). This 25 meters long structure is decomposed into two libraries and a central passageway. Disc jockeys and specialised staff can enter the library and use it as an active archive, playing LP sets to the public. The structure is thus the support that can enable the professionals to bring life to the exhibited collection.
As a rather subtle reference, the library is conceived completely in wood to recall the warm and intimate atmosphere of Nobs chalet where many parties with incredible artist were held throughout the years. The structure is as obsessive as the collector’s mind. Based on a unique wood beam section and assembled in a very repetitive manner, with the rigour of a minimal sculpture. Pieces are bolted with brass wing nuts, easily dismountable and completely modular.
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