Willem Claassen

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Tent. Eindhoven, Onomatopee, 10-06-2011, 10-07-2011. - Door ruiimtelijke functies optisch te verplaatsen produceert de ontwerper Willem Claassen een functionerende ervaring van architectuur en objecten met een open eind. Dit legt een ruimtelijke of mentale disillusie bloot: heerlijk én autonoom. - Nest project Spatial Rupture Willem Claassen makes operational settings. We encounter these as active environments as they function and thus offer us a sphere of functionality to relate with. As such Willem Claassen's work touches on the realm of design: his work does function and adheres to our real, economic world likewise. The capacity to materialise applied awe might be the reason why amusement park attractions are competitive with arts: they are more effective in terms of entertainment as their function is subordinate to instant joy Willem Claassen's work releases a similar type of joy, yet is subversive to the economics of experience as it disrupts their instantly satisfying ambiguous unity of function and narration. This surreal sensory field disrupts our anchors to reality. He breaks the chain of design's economically imprinted spirits and materialises space for artistically produced doubt within wondrous spheres