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Since the late 1980’s Aldo Bakker (NL, 1971) has gradually developed an impressive body of work. The exhibition Aldo Bakker. PAUSE at the CID - centre d’innovation et de design au Grand-Hornu presents the first comprehensive overview of his oeuvre. Curated by Aldo Bakker himself, the exhibition stages the public encounter between the intriguing outcomes of his unique and laborious work process.

All of Bakker’s objects seem strangely familiar at first sight; they remind us of things we have seen or used before, almost as if they are the archetypes of the sophisticated material culture that …