Video: The chair as an object: design allusions to the famous Viennese chair
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Parisian Pablo Reinoso is a true connoisseur of good furniture. The future designer created his first chair at the age of six. Over the years, the passion has not faded away. On the contrary, having received an education in architecture, Reinoso made a real fetish out of this piece of furniture, an object for collecting and reproducing in the most outlandish ways.
Reinoso, literally, in everything seeks to reach "the very essence." Whether doing furniture, creating installations, or coming up with a design for perfume packaging, the artist dives deeply into the world of materials and forms. The passion for carpentry was once and for all instilled in little Pablo by his grandfather, a jack of all trades and a great fan of art.
However, it would be a mistake to single out any one area that obeyed the genius of Reinoso. He is equally comfortable in sculpture, photography, architecture and design. These related, but still such different areas, the master considers as ways of knowing and exploring the world. Setting the problem, choosing a topic, material - all this is a kind of "conversation" with the surrounding reality.
The Thoneteando series is based on the play of associations around the Thonet No. 14 chair, a true icon of industrial design made by the renowned Austrian Thonet factory in the mid-nineteenth century. Reinoso started the series in 2004 with a lot of things. There are Tibetan mandalas, geometric trends in the art of the 1970s, and constructivist minimalism. “I have always treated chairs with awe. In general, the "chair" as an object and concept is constantly present in my mind. Chairs "Tonet" have a special appeal for me. My sculptures, allusions to them, are a kind of symbiosis of 19th century industrial design and organic attributes,”says the artist.
Another craftsman, New York artist Jason Peters became famous for his large-scale installations, which seem to be cramped in the exhibition space. It is noteworthy that in the process of creating his outlandish designs, Peters actively uses the most ordinary consumer goods found in the city's landfills. In some of his installations, chairs play an important role.
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