Robert Stadler studied design at IED/Milan and at ENSCI/Paris.
In 1992 he cofounded the RADI DESIGNERS group which was active until 2OO8. He is represented by Carpenters Workshop gallery and Galerie Triple V.
Robert Stadler intervenes in very diverse fields, obliterating all hierarchies between free proposals, industrial and public commissions. He explores the exhibition space in order to scramble the usual categories of art and design. He questions the status of the object as work of art or product as well as the border of preciousness / lowliness and the serious / the absurd.
Stadler works with a lot of color but mainly with texture. In this pieces he talks a bit about his the inspiration and process.
This exhibition in Paris is a presentation of work he have produced over the past three years with the Carpenters Workshop Gallery, hence the title “1OOO jours” (1OOO days). Although he didn’t conceive these works especially for this show a connecting thread, namely illusion became clearly visible: The constant play with what looks random and what is actually controlled or vice versa expresses the ongoing utopia of dominating nature.
Solo show at Carpenters Workshop Gallery / 2O11
Lightspot
The somewhat weird idea behind “Lightspot” is to materialize the immaterial. The colored aluminum plates correspond to an actual lightspot projected onto the wall by a miniature LED lamp. The various layers shade off in the same way the light does. They are coated with a particularly reflecting paint, giving the illusion that the plates themselves are light emitting. “Lightspot” can be placed in different directions according to the user wish. By moving the object he will experience a strange feeling of being able to hold light in his hands.