Jessi Reaves, The History, 2017
Artist: Jessi Reaves (born 1986, Portland, OR; lives and works in New York). Description: Marcel Breuer chair combined with an outdoor reclining chair, bound in newspaper print fabric. For her solo show at Herald Street Gallery (London) in 2017, titled Android Stroll, Reaves presented sculptures that midcentury ergonomic furniture with bulky, heavy, impractical materials. “Reaves […]
Nicole Wermers, “Untitled (Chairs)” series, 2014-15
Artist: Nicole Wermers (born 1971 in Emsdetten, Germany; lives and works in London, England). Materials: Vintage fur, steel tubing, upholstery, silk, and velvet; variable dimensions. Description: “‘Untitled Chairs’ (2014-15), is a series of unique dining chair and fur coat assemblages where the individual garments are seamlessly and permanently sewn around a chair’s form creating an entirely […]
Tobias Rehberger, Untitled “Chairs” Series, 1994
Artist: Tobias Rehberger (born 1966 in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany; lives and works in Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany) Documentation: Above: Untitled (Breuer), Untitled (Aalto), Untitled (Judd), Untitled (Rietveld), and Untitled (Breuer), all 1994. Description: “German artist Tobias Rehberger spent two weeks in Yaoundé, Cameroon, at the invitation of the Goethe Institut. He took with him perspective drawings of […]