Exhibition - Qui êtes-vous Raymond Guidot

Description

The aim here is to pay tribute to an extraordinary personality, Raymond Guidot (1934-2021), who was an engineer, artist, designer, teacher and design historian.

Exceptional access to his personal archives has thrown light on this thinking constantly on the move.

Raymond Guidot’s career began with Roger Tallon at the TECHNÈS design agency, where he tackled the demands of industrial design. But it was at the Centre de Création Industrielle (CCI), founded in 1969 by François Mathey and François Barré, that he conducted a critical reflection on objects and how they relate to society through numerous outstanding exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou.

Raymond Guidot made his mark on the teaching of design from 1969 onwards, at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Ensad), then at ENSCI – Les Ateliers and the École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, among others. He trained many students and shared an open view of the discipline through a major book, Histoire du design, 1940-1990. This book places design in a wider perspective, beyond aesthetics, anchoring it in political, social and intellectual contexts.

The exhibition, which addresses the issue of design archives as a resource, presents a previously unseen corpus of drawings, photographs, manuscripts, mock-ups and prototypes.