Ron Arad’s Maze, unveiled earlier this year, is a physical theatre collaboration with choreographer Jasmin Vardimon, and sees the mercurial creative go full throttle with an intimate and immersive experience. Here, the maverick designer takes the stage in our 60 seconds series.
Who: Ron Arad.
Occupation: Who is asking? Architect? Artist? Designer? Ping pong player? All of the above.
From: Middle East? / The West.
Essential work tool: Eyes, ears, mouth, pencil.
Career highlight: Dismantling my MOMA retrospective, moving on to better things.
Signature: Hat.
Current fixation: Shitty state of our world.
Personal hero: Still looking; all the heroes I can think of are not personal.
Still on the bucket list: Teach [Bob] Dylan to weld and maybe write a song with him.
Latest project: Safe Hands, a 31m-tall sculpture for the center of Toronto; towers in Tel Aviv; new collections for Moroso; a special book celebrating 100 years of Einstein's theory of relativity; what else?