“Objects with soul” is currently exhibited at Flow Gallery Ivandry, on a proposal from Ihoby Rabarijohn, the curator of the exhibition.
This is the first design exhibition that this gallery hosts in its premises.
Kiady Ratovoson, the designer who designed the thirty masterpieces that make up this solo design show is a young artist recently returned to Madagascar.
Kiady Ratovoson studied environmental design at Donghua University in Shanghai. It is a discipline bringing together architecture, interior design and landscape design. He then specialized in interior design in Italy at Politecnico Di Milano University.
Upon his return to Madagascar 18 months ago, he founded KR. Workshop, its furniture brand. Its main activity: create objects that blur the boundaries between architecture, furniture and art. He particularly likes to marry wood, especially the Varongy, with the Sisal.
At the same time, he opened his interior design studio, Kr. Studio, whose objective is to create rich experiences with a strong and distinctive identity for each project, by adopting a new approach to tailor -made interior architecture. It combines a narrative, textured and playful style, while exploring the duality between modern and traditional, which thus constitutes the basis of each concept. It also combines ergonomics and aesthetics.
He merged his Malagasy heritage there with his international identity acquired in Shanghai and Milan, thus giving birth to an aesthetic movement where the forms, local materials and artisanal know-how are essential to each product.
Each piece of this exhibition is therefore inspired by its career, integrating this mixture of identities which integrate into the same creative act. They are also all unique.
It should be noted that Kiady particularly wishes to pay tribute to craft manufacturing as well as creative diversity through this exhibition. If the design of all these creations took him approximately 4 months, the manufacture and assembly of each piece requires 160 meticulous hours of artisans at least. We feel the attention paid to the understanding of its materials on each object anyway.
In addition, Kiady, as an environmental designer, did not fail to emphasize an approach respectful of the environment, through the partial use of recycled wood.
All these pieces will be available in this gallery until April 11, 2025.
Hanitra Andria
