The chairs are great... Here is a link to Martini Gampers website.
Gamper Martino
Martino is predominately a furniture designer, but also works collaboratively with other artists and designers including his partner Francis Upritchard... Francis was at art school here with me many years ago, now based in London she represented NZ at the Venice Bienalle in 2009.
they have recently been part of a residency at the Govett Brewster Gallery:
Govett-Brewster Contemporary Art Museum, Taranaki, New Zealand
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDelete'Wouldn't It Be Nice' and 'Furniture While You Wait' are really relevant to the idea of recycling other furniture to make our own. Maybe we could work in some more individuality through the materials that we use in our desks...not sanding them back but working with their current surfaces.
ReplyDeleteIt could bring an individuality to each desk while at the same time locking them together via the mishmash aesthetic? Could be interesting but due to the simplicity of the form it might become less refined rather than more sculptural? Thoughts?
Re-worked furniture wouldn't have 'blank' uniformity but aesthetically has potential. Its a fine line though between creative mishmash and the junk pile.
ReplyDeleteI'm keen to check out somewhere like supershead to see whats on offer. Are you thinking mishmash with the entire desk or just the individual spaces within it? We could isolate it to one area? Like just the table top, or just the table sides?
Something jigsaw/puzzle like the 13 piece off-cut table (http://www.gampermartino.com/projects/total-trattoria/) i really like the look of even though they are different shape, size and material.
If we somehow found something with a nice grain, i think it would be a waste hide with paint.
'100 chairs in 100 days' INSANE. Many, many spliced chairs.
There seems to be an aesthetic shift here, but an interesting one... As Ashlee said, be- ware of that fine line...
ReplyDeleteI think that as well as a trip to Bunnings/Placemakers/Mitre 10 a trip to Super shed is in order. That way you can explore the found/recycled as a material as well as the constructed and use of traditional building materials (Ply, MDF, steel, timber etc)
This is all part of research for Sculpture, and the kind of research that will be undertaken with your own individual projects later in the year... its good to start gaining an understanding of where to source materials etc..
Alongside the large square work benches in the SCUL yard are tables with slimmer steel frames if these could be of use in individualising desks?
I'm in meetings tomorrow morning, and then with 401's, but will check in with you during the day, and be great to see some of your drawings and research on the wall.
How about a group trip or small groups to get together to look around and do research at Bunnings and other shops... I must admit that Bunnings is one of my favorite shops!
Yeah you're right Ashlee,I definitely think we have to be super careful about constructing with purposefully non-refurbished materials. We'll have to base the whole idea around what we can find at supershed, if nothing is appropriate we can't compromise because it'll look tacky. We should see if everyone's keen to go to supershed after Bunnings tomorrow morning.
ReplyDeleteI think isolating an area to work in the recycled material is a good idea, it could be a different area on each persons desk? Isolating each plane of the desk could be an interesting examination of our basic desk design, see how each element being made the focus changes the form? We have to find something better than mdf to match it with though! I'm also not keen at all on the whitewash, if there is any way we can find something nice enough to not have to do that I'll be happy.
I guess a lot of the aesthetic really is going to be based totally on the budget. I suppose we'll see just how unrealistic our dreams are tomorrow morning. :)
P.S Can we steal some of his chairs for ourselves? ...he has 100 of them....
ReplyDelete