Muller Van Severen has spent the final 15 years masterfully blurring the traces between artwork and design and his newest exhibition, frames, TO Tim Van Laere Gallery from Antwerp, Belgium, takes this exploration to new heights. The exhibition, their first solo exhibition on the gallery, is an immersive expertise that challenges our understanding of house, performance and sculpture. That includes over 30 works, every distinctive in type and method, the present continues Muller Van Severen's investigation into the intersection of sculpture and useful object.
Within the coronary heart frames it’s a course of that Muller Van Severen has managed over time. The duo of Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen begin with a single board, utilizing minimal intervention – chopping, folding and opening the fabric – to create depth and dimension. The result’s a set of items that straddle abstraction and figuration, fusing sculptural expression with utility. Whereas the works might be appreciated as artwork objects, they’re designed for use, remodeling the best way we work together with the objects round us and the areas we inhabit.
The architectural inspiration behind these items is evident, with references to geometric shapes and daring visible vocabularies paying homage to the Suprematists, pioneers of the early 20th century artwork motion centered on the basics of geometry. It really works like Body #17 and Body #20 a nod to Russian artist Kazimir Malevich's 1915 Suprematist set up, The Final Futuristic Portray Exhibition zero.10. Muller Van Severen goes one step additional, creating kinds that aren’t simply to be checked out, however lived with – a continuation of Austrian artist Franz West's imaginative and prescient of furnishings as artwork.
Muller Van Severen exhibits us that objects, particularly useful objects, can elevate and form our experiences in house. By breaking down the boundaries between artwork and design, designers make artwork and useful design virtually indistinguishable, encouraging us to combine these items into our on a regular basis lives to make artwork a lived expertise quite than an object faraway from admired.
Muller Van Severen
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Picture courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp-Rome.
