all about furniture
This month’s column is about furniture……From kitchen to the bathroom you will see all kinds of soft ovens and toilets!
Delving into the topic I was very impressed with how beautiful you can show something so ordinary and on the surface completely uninteresting, like fridge for example.
I don’t have much experience with furniture but after seeing these amazing works I feel very inspired. I hope they will work on you like that too and provoke to action, because this topic still has a lot to discover.
CLAES OLDENBURG
Claes Oldenburg is an American sculptor, best known for his public art installations and soft sculpture featuring large replicas of everyday objects. He translating the medium of sculpture from hard to soft, to show us objects that were subject to gravity and chance.
DO HO SUH
Do Ho Suh works across various media, creating drawings, film, and sculptural works. He is best known for his fabric sculptures that reconstruct to scale his former homes in Korea, Rhode Island, Berlin, London, and New York. He is particularly interested in domestic space and the way the concept of home can be articulated through architecture that has a specific location, form, and history.
JUDITH HOFFMAN
Judy Hoffman is a multidisciplinary artist. She says about her work “Huggable Kitchen” – ”I built “Huggable Kitchen” during grad school when I was studying Claes Oldenburg and felt frustrated by the lack of recognition given to Coosje van Bruggen, his wife and artistic partner. This soft, to-scale replica of my kitchen at the time is a tribute to van Bruggen and all the women whose contributions to art and family life have gone uncelebrated.”
NINA SAUNDERS
Nina Saunders‘ best-known works are discarded, second-hand armchairs, rendered dramatically dysfunctional by the addition pieces. Some of them look like they are melting or about to explode.
From my perspective…
Make sure to click on each artist name to discover more.
Thank you for reading!
