Dysfunctional: Beyond the Boundaries of Form and Function - Hardcover

Adamson, Glenn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2376660254 ISBN 13: 9782376660255

Publisher: Editions Norma, 2019

Synopsis

Must form still follow function, as Martin Gropius, Le Corbusier, and their followers proclaimed? Dysfunctional invites a reconsideration of the conventional relationship between artistic expression and functionality. In an exhibition organised by the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in the stunning setting of the Ca'd'Oro in Venice, site-specific works by 17 established and emerging artists explore the boundaries of art, architecture, and design. These contemporary artists draw on the rich heritage of Venetian craftsmanship and the museum's exceptional collection of Italian masterpieces to create a meaningful dialogue about the 20th century mantra of form following function. With work located in the realm between craft and art, each of the artists in the show challenges preconceptions about what is beautiful and what is useful, what is historical, and what is modern. Included here are site-specific installations and furniture-sculpture by Nacho Carbonell, Studio Drift, Vincent Dubourg and Virgil Abloh, organic benches by Wendell Castle and Mathieu Lehanneur, and inhabited clocks by Maarten Baas, among others.

About this title

About the Author

Glenn Adamson is a curator and writer who works at the intersection of craft, design history and contemporary art. Former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and head of research at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, he is currently a senior scholar at the Yale Center for British Art. He is the author of numerous publications including Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects, 2018, The Invention of Craft, 2013, The Craft Reader, 2010, all published by Bloomsbury. He contributes regularly to Art in America, Crafts, Disegno, Frieze, Antiques magazine and other publications.

From the Back Cover

Shape must still follow the function, as taught by the Bauhaus, Le Corbusier, or his disciples. By confronting the work of seventeen international artists and designers with the Renaissance architecture of the Ca 'd'Oro palace in Venice,' Dys-functional ', an exhibition organized by the Carpenters Workshop Gallery, questions this command which has lastingly marked the history of architecture and design in the twentieth century. The lamps or furniture-sculpture by Nacho Carbonell, Studio Drift, Vincent Dubourg and Virgil Abloh, the organic benches of Wendell Castle or Mathieu Lehanneur, the inhabited clocks of Maarten Baas are as many contemporary challenges to the boundaries between beauty and beauty. arts, architecture and design. Between crafts and art, each of these creators challenges the notion of functionalism in the light of his artistic gesture, confronting the masterpieces of the Ca 'd'Oro, Mantegna to Van Eyck, gathered by the collector Giorgio Franchetti.

Edition details

• Publisher: Editions Norma
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2376660254
• ISBN 13: 9782376660255
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160