PANTONE & LIMON – DANYSZ

Galleries — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:59:29 +0000

Casa Variable, Art and Architecture Complete by Magda Danysz
Born from the pooling of the skills, inspirations and dreams of artist Felipe Pantone and designer Pablo Limón, ‘Casa Variable’ is a work of art and an architectural project… But it is also much more. It is at the same time a device, a series of principles, an exhibition, a journey and a house to live in. The artistic project unfolds here in the form of an exhibition – a tangible experience – which in line with the activatable integral pieces of artists such as Sol LeWitt leads us both to conceive mentally and to experience the making of a private house.
This house stems from an original work by Felipe Pantone. An initial seed, this two-dimensional painting is representative of the work of Felipe Pantone. From this embryo were born floorplans, then a three-dimensional perspective and a model, as if the starting work was the aerial view of the project. The major aspect that has evolved is the scale. The shapes and colors remain the same, without ever betraying the art of Felipe Pantone both in its graphic language and its chromatic vibrations. In this experience where art is transformed into architecture, the abstraction of Felipe Pantone stands out as both the initial inspiration and the challenge to overcome. Enriched in contact with Pablo Limón, the work becomes functional both in its entirety and in the details. The mosaic swimming pool is visible from above, while furniture, chairs and rugs are deployed inside the house, in harmony with everything. We realize that these details were most likely already inscribed in the matrix of the original painting, but its abstraction served as a metaphor for a plan just waiting to come to life.

DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURES – GUTHARC

Galleries — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:21:51 +0000

Domestic architectures
Helen von Boch, Fernando et Humberto Campana, Pierre Charpin, Véronique Ellena, Konstantin Grcic, Enzo Mari, Philippe Million, Jasper Morrison, Serge Mouille, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, Bernard Quesniaux, André Sornay, Ettore Sottsass, Vincent J. Stoker, Martin Szekely, Franz West, Frank Willems
These domestic architectures, objects, furnitures, lights are the things that make up our daily environment. They are the result of acute reflexions that atempt to renew the formal vocabulary of ti concieve a diffrent relationship between the object and its fonction.
These objetcs were or are destined, sometimes, for institutions or for the office. Their industrialized fabrication processes and the inherent need for solidity often are intrinsic components of thier conception. They were or are designed to be able to be widely diffused among the public.
The object is a product. it is subject to all of the contingencies of commercialisation – powerful corporations or more modest brands are strategic and commercial supports of production and distribution. These groups are marks that are based on anterioriety of thier creators to communicate and attract attention. But their dynamic force allows these creations a diffusion and eventual recognation normally unavailable to these most intimate creations destined for the elitist and precious circuit of the world of design galleries and art galleries.
The Mark and the strenght of it presence gives value to the object. Ultimatly, it is amosmosis for the same purposes : recognition, visibility, profitibility (in terms of image and economic resources). The designers synthesize the reflexions resulting from the most experimental work to concieve these products meant for a larger public. Here we find their conceptual signature. Thus the products fulfil their destiny. Sometimes they know great success sometimes they remain unknown because the demands of their production can create a cost preventing competitive commercialisation. Sometimes also the originality of the approach is not percieved by a large public and the buyers remain those who frequent art galleries who are too few for the objects to remain in production long.
Times does its work and the recognition gives these productions an exceptional character, a rarity. These objects become iconic.
The speculative fever burns. Then they are reissued so that a large public may have access to them.
The exhibition examines objects of iconic status and others recently created and currently available. The first were, before all else, objects destined for mass distribution.
The intelligence which prevailed at their conception allows us to see with clarity a value which few perceived when they were created.
The objects currently on the market are all designed by strong identities in the XXI century design world.
They are sometimes very modest, sometimes more expensive, but never issued in limited editions. We bet the near future will reveal the importance of these objects and we are confident today that tomorrow we would regret not having looked more closely.

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