​Silhouettes: Celebrating 15 years

Belgian design duo Muller Van Severen is celebrating its 15th anniversary in Milan with the exhibition Silhouettes: Celebrating 15 Years, in collaboration with Apartamento and Tim Van Laere Gallery.

The exhibition presents fifteen unique, life-size aluminium candle holders. Each form is an abstract reinterpretation of recurring motifs from Muller Van Severen’s oeuvre, alongside forms that already emerged in the earlier individual practices of Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen: chairs, cabinets, lamps, vases and sculptural structures. Through rotation, inversion or closure, these archetypes are reduced to their contours — to silhouettes that abandon their original function and emerge as autonomous signs in space.

A large coloured candle crowns the top of each structure, introducing a temporal dimension. As the candle burns, the object undergoes a slow and irreversible transformation.

Saturday, April 18 ​ | Opening Party, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM Sunday, April 19 | Press preview from 10:00 AM to 08:00 PM. Monday, April 20 | 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Book launch and signing at Ordet from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM, drinks from 7:00 PM until close.