Misha Kahn goals for “optimistic design present” at Friedman Benda New York

A vibrant cashmere couch, bronze chandeliers and stained-glass sculptures are among the many mixture of plush and sculptural objects American designer Misha Kahn is displaying at New York gallery Friedman Benda.

Marking the Brooklyn artist’s third presentation within the Chelsea gallery, Comfortable Our bodies, Arduous Areas is meant to supply a optimistic reflection on the connection between people and machines.

Partitions and show plinths are lined in fuzzy, white yarn on one facet of the exhibition

“I really feel like this present is actually me making an attempt to make kind of an optimistic design present, people and machines collaborating properly, supplies collaborating properly, all the pieces feels kind of empathetic to one another,” he advised Dezeen.

“The exhibition title references Kahn’s curiosity within the incongruity of what he refers to as our ‘unusual, mushy our bodies’ inside the ‘onerous, violent proper angles’ by which we reside,” Friedman Benda added.

Whereas the opposite facet, they’re coated with sand and darkish paint

The gallery area is split into two distinct areas designed to mirror the juxtaposition within the exhibition’s title. On one facet the partitions and show plinths are lined in mushy, white yarn, whereas the opposite is coated with sand that has been glued after which lined in a darkish paint with an airbrush.

Objects on present make use of a variety of supplies and strategies together with metallic casting, hand weaving, digital modelling and glass collaging.

It options a mixture of unusually formed and curved designs, such because the Pig of Sea couch and All of the Issues I Forgot chandelier

Kahn used a digital actuality (VR) programme to attract the unusually formed and curved designs by hand. He mentioned the method allowed him to simply manipulate the creations and create surprising outcomes.

“I at all times really feel like if I do know what it is gonna appear like from the beginning, it is like why make it?” the designer added. “I am hoping to be taken on an journey.”

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Kahn used VR to visualise the summary configurations that make up the cashmere Pig of Sea couch and pair of curvaceous Ammonoid Omega and Alpha chairs.

The set of shapes on the mohair tapestry, titled A Unfastened Understanding of the House-Time Continuum, had been additionally realised with the expertise. Drawings had been then woven by South African artist Mags Stephens.

Kahn labored with South African artist Mags Stephens to create A Unfastened Understanding of the House-Time Continuum

Bronze objects, such because the All of the Issues I Forgot chandelier proven in a mini-model and full dimension model, and Reception Desk for the Unknown comprise of over 100 particular person elements.

Kahn constructed a sequence of glass and aluminium sculptures as a visiting artist on the Corning Museum of Glass, together with Storage for Gentle, Feelings, and Transient Thought. He conceived the fantastical objects by outlining their kinds in a pit of sand.

Storage for Gentle, Feelings, and Transient Thought is a glass and aluminium sculpture that Kahn created by outlining summary shapes in a pit of sand

Much like the glassworks, Kahn has created “materials collages” akin to Slide to the Left and Slide to the Proper. They’re two towering mixes of supplies that mix stainless-steel, concrete, glass, fibreglass, ceramic, bamboo and wool into one object.

Comfortable Our bodies, Arduous Areas is on show at Friedman Benda in New York till four April 2020.

Kahn’s “materials collages” akin to Slide to the Left and Slide to the Proper mix stainless-steel, concrete, glass, fibreglass, ceramic, bamboo and wool into one towering object

Kahn’s earlier exhibitions at Friedman Benda embrace a set of sea creature sculptures constructed from collected trash. He additionally made a “rampant solid of character-objects” that had been displayed at Los Angeles’ M+B Annex gallery.

Friedman Benda opened its New York Metropolis gallery in 2007. Different latest showcases there embrace an exploration of consolation curated by Omar Sosa and uncommon and limited-edition furnishings designs by Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce.