Tracy Metz on Richard Woods & Sebstian Wrong in VIVID, NRC Handelsblad
Richard
Woods & Sebastian Wrong
January 27 - March 17, 2013
opening
January 27, 4 pm
Galerie
VIVID is proud to present new works by Richard Woods and Sebastian Wrong
Right after the succesfull launch of the four Bent Wood Tables at Design
Miami VIVID will present these colorful tables in Rotterdam.
Rotterdam will also have the premiere of a new chair by this duo.
Bent
Wood Tables
Inspired by the process of steam bending wood, the beach rings, produced
in Udine in northern Italy, where generations of skilled craftsmen still
use the crude and basic processes of timber manipulation using steam and
compression forcing the raw material to curl, making a very unnatural
'animated' form. We wanted to use these curled wooden blanks.......normally
never seen outside the workshop environment.....in their premachined state
to remain as they are and serve as raw structures for stacking and printing.
'We stacked the rings, like used tyres from a car breakers yard, and Richard
printed his wood grain pattern onto the surface '.
Artist
Richard Woods is a graduate of The Slade School of Fine
Art. His well-documented work crosses boundaries between art, architecture
and design and is most often made up of exaggerated, garish representations
of traditional British architectural and interior motifs like wooden flooring,
chintz wallpapers, crazy paving or red bricks.
These ‘logos of reality’ are created using traditional woodblock
techniques and then applied to walls as a second skin covering interior
floors, walls and recently an entire residential building in upstate New
York.
In these instances, Woods’s art expresses an extreme version of
Englishness by taking over a space and saturating it with iconography.
Woods continues to win prestigious commissions and exhibits around the
world.
Sebastian
Wrong studied sculpture at Norwich School of Art before forming
his own manufacturing company in 1996 and later co-created the The Lane
design brand that ran for four years. He designed the Spun Light in 2002
(now produced by Flos) and was a co founder and design director of Established
& Sons and taught 'Product Design' at the RCA from 2010 to 2012. He
now runs the Wrong Shop in London.
Woods's art together with Wrong’s extensive knowledge of manufacturing
processes and materials, as well as his passion for fabrication, are the
main components of these Bent Wood Tables.
Art Rotterdam
February
7 - 10, 2013
artrotterdam.nl
Richard Woods
Sebastian Wrong
Jan van Toorn
Bik Van der Pol
Metahaven
Iwan Baan
Aldo Bakker
Elise Tak
Experimental Jetset
Slothouber & Graatsma
Lily van der Stokker
