“Vanitas of Life” at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York
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Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents “Vanitas of Life” by Dutch designers The Verhoeven Twins, at its New York venue from November 7 through December 22. The exhibition features borosilicate glass Bubble works from “Shape of Water” collection, iterati“Vanitas of Life” at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York
Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents “Vanitas of Life” by Dutch designers The Verhoeven Twins, at its New York venue from November 7 through December 22. The exhibition features borosilicate glass Bubble works from “Shape of Water” collection, iterations of their “Lectori Salutem” Desk, and also their iconic “Cinderella” table.In their “Shape of Water” collection, the designer duo Joep and Jeroen Verhoeven, fuse time-honored symbolism and cutting-edge technology to create a sculpture of “startling” beauty.“The bubble appears throughout art history as an image of transience, most famously in ‘Chardin’s Soap Bubbles’ (c. 1733-34), which depicts a boy blowing a bubble while another watches. A similarly playful spirit infuses Verhoeven’s Vanitas of Life collection, with its billowing, prismatic glass bubbles that look like they might pop at any moment,” writes the gallery.The duo arrived at the method to make the bubbles after years of research, using borosilicate glass, the most stable and clear glass made by man. “Craftsmen in Italy that are used to work on jewelry precision cut the glass to a complex structure that results in an exceptionally strong substance. The Verhoeven Twins have created a unique cultural artefact by transforming a symbol image of brevity into an enduring object,” explains the gallery.The symbolic nature of the bubble is a major theme in the Verhoeven Twins’ work and practice. “The twins refer to their working environment as living within a bubble of their own experience — as the two share an apartment and a studio. The pair also attempt to capture a youthful like innocence or naiveté through their work; for the artists bubbles come to represent the fragility of life — something of aesthetic beauty but also very temporary. A vanitas is a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, often contrasting symbols of wealth and symbols of ephemerality and death,” describes the gallery.The works on exhibit exist at the intersection of art object and functional sculpture. The designer twins aim to collapse the abstract into the functional. The whimsical and beautiful pieces also delve deeper to ask existential questions about life, death, and all the possibility bound up within a single moment, as described by the gallery.The exhibition will be on view from November 7 through December 22, 2018 at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, 693, Fifth Avenue, NY 10022For details, visit: http://carpentersworkshopgallery.com/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more