al dente: Pasta & Design at the HfG-Archiv, Ulm

In 1991 the German, designer, theoretician, educator and co-initiator of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm, Otl Aicher, opined that “die Relation von Form und Material lässt sich nirgendwo so gut nachweisen wie bei Nahrungsmitteln, also etwa bei Teigwaren”¹, ‘the relationship between form and material is nowhere better demonstrated than in foodstuffs, such as pasta’.

With the exhibition al dente: Pasta & Design the HfG-Archiv, Ulm, explore not only the relationships between form and material in context of pasta, but also the wider connections between pasta and design, and in doing so enable differentiated perspectives on form, material, function, society, design and pasta…….