Andrew Magill

Passionswege

Exhibition

Hermann Trebsche at Ballons & Ballons

Hermann Trebsche

30.9.–7.10.2011

Before Mr Padilla founded the company Ballons & Ballons at the lower end of Taborstrasse, he was a designer – to be exact, a designer of lamps for night stands, which he and his wife produced
and sold from their flat. His main business today is trading in merchandise made of latex, plastic, or the environmentally friendly
natural rubber and filled with air, helium, or water. Field of application: from births to burials. Facts and details about the persons in question, as well as the dynamic nature of a hollow elastic
body, harbour design stories – some of them rather poetic – that
can be told in Vienna. Did you know, for instance, that Mr Padilla
also owns a go cart track at the Prater amusement park that he
doesn’t talk about much? Hermann Trebsche is going to get
to the bottom of these stories and tell them from a designer’s point
of view.