Blow Up
Friedman Benda announces its fifth annual guest-curated exhibition entitled Blow Up. Curated by Felix Burrichter, the founder and editor of the architecture and design magazine PIN鈥揢P, the exhibition will take the miniaturized domestic ideal of the dollhouse and blow it back up to full size. With the help of design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero, Burrichter will transform the gallery space into a Freudian trip through a 1:1 dollhouse, complete with bedroom, dining room, kitchen, study, and nursery.
Throughout the exhibition, the art and design will bear the strangeness of their 鈥渞e-rescaling鈥� as simplified forms designed for a miniature world entering back into our own. Shrunken furniture will be restored to macro scale in a double abstraction that leaves everything at uncanny and uneven. 鈥淏low Up is a show about the aesthetics and materiality of scale, and how the objects we鈥檙e surrounded with during our childhood condition our ideas of domesticity, taste, and social norms today,鈥� states Burrichter.
Blow Up is a dialogue between seminal designs from 1970s and 80s by Wendell Castle, Gaetano Pesce, and Shiro Kuramata, with contemporary art and design, including over a dozen works specially commissioned for the show.
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Friedman Benda announces its fifth annual guest-curated exhibition entitled Blow Up. Curated by Felix Burrichter, the founder and editor of the architecture and design magazine PIN鈥揢P, the exhibition will take the miniaturized domestic ideal of the dollhouse and blow it back up to full size. With the help of design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero, Burrichter will transform the gallery space into a Freudian trip through a 1:1 dollhouse, complete with bedroom, dining room, kitchen, study, and nursery.
Throughout the exhibition, the art and design will bear the strangeness of their 鈥渞e-rescaling鈥� as simplified forms designed for a miniature world entering back into our own. Shrunken furniture will be restored to macro scale in a double abstraction that leaves everything at uncanny and uneven. 鈥淏low Up is a show about the aesthetics and materiality of scale, and how the objects we鈥檙e surrounded with during our childhood condition our ideas of domesticity, taste, and social norms today,鈥� states Burrichter.
Blow Up is a dialogue between seminal designs from 1970s and 80s by Wendell Castle, Gaetano Pesce, and Shiro Kuramata, with contemporary art and design, including over a dozen works specially commissioned for the show.
Artists on show
- BNAG
- Camille Henrot
- Charlap Hyman & Herrero
- Chen Chen & Kai Williams
- Dozie Kanu
- Ettore Sottsass
- Fernando & Humberto Campana
- Gaetano Pesce
- Group Pentagon
- Jonathan Trayte
- Katie Stout
- Kristen Wentrcek & Andrew Zebulon
- Larry Randolph
- Leon Ransmeier
- Luca Cipelletti
- Misha Kahn
- Oona Brangam-Snell
- Peter Marigold
- Rade Petrasevic
- Rafael Cardenas
- Sam Stewart
- Sarah Ortmeyer
- Shiro Kuramata
- Soft Baroque
- Wendell Castle
- Wolfgang Laubersheimer
- Woody de Othello
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