“Dialogues” by Friedman Benda at The Salon Art + Design 2018, New York
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Friedman Benda is showcasing “Dialogues,” bringing three emerging voices in context with the groundbreaking Italian architect and designer — Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) at The Salon Art + Design 2018.“Focusing on three radically different approaches a“Dialogues” by Friedman Benda at The Salon Art + Design 2018, New York
Friedman Benda is showcasing “Dialogues,” bringing three emerging voices in context with the groundbreaking Italian architect and designer — Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) at The Salon Art + Design 2018.“Focusing on three radically different approaches and practices, this exhibit brings focus to the breadth of each designer’s expression, while contextualizing Sottsass’ enduring legacy that informs generations of young designers and artists from across the globe,” says the gallery.“Dialogues” is debuting ambitious new works by the American designer Misha Kahn, who lists Sottsass’ “willingness to swim upstream against conventional taste,” as an enduring legacy.Like Sottsass, Kahn demonstrates how a functional object can contain personality, energy and spirit. The presentation includes a site-specific floor made by Kahn.Misha Kahn was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1989. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv the following year.In 2008, Misha's work was included in “20 under 20” at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. His concrete Heyerdahl lamps were among the works in Bjarne Melgaard’s 2013 installation at the Whitney Biennial, and his work was exhibited in 2014 at “NYC Makers: MAD Biennial” at the Museum of Art and Design, New York. Misha Kahn lives and works in Brooklyn.With his background as a chef and foundry metal worker, British artist Jonathan Trayte brings together a wide range of influences into his objects.“I grew up in the 80’s between South Africa and Yorkshire, spending a lot of my childhood in the bush. I had no idea who Sottsass was, but his striking and experimental work permeated through popular culture. His cross-disciplinary approach to design and architecture is an inspiration,” says Trayte.Trayte’s floor lamp, “Velvet Straight-Neck,” and vanity table, “Pink Mondi with Bomba Lamp,” offer a fresh take on Sottsass’ eye-catching hues and distilled, archetypal forms.Jonathan Trayte was born in 1980 in Huddersfield, UK. Trayte received a BFA from University of the Creative Arts Canterbury in 2004 and a postgraduate degree in Fine Art from Royal Academy Schools in 2010. Trayte’s work has been included in numerous international exhibitions.“Trayte’s approach to making sculpture and installation is informed by our global language of consumption and the manipulation of consumer decision-making. Using a wide range of materials, methods and processes, his work reinterprets modern consumer behavior and explores the psychology of desire through surface, material, light and color. The work is a coming together of natural forms and saccharine colors,” the gallery adds.Switzerland-based designer Ini Archibong is debuting a glass chandelier, “Vernus,” his first collaboration with the gallery.Archibong states, “Sottsass’ refined forms made me realize, not to fear exposing my inner complexities for the sake of delivering what is expected from me. To be willing to reinvent myself, and to make design with a sense of sensuality.” “Dialogues” is showcasing through November 12, 2018 at Booth B1, The Salon Art + Design 2018, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA.For details, visit: http://www.friedmanbenda.com/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the collection.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more