Wishful Thinking #5

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Daybed, 1929

For my pseudo-psychotherapeutic Freud sessions and as replacement for a random corner art installation, I am requesting a daybed. Alternatively, I do also accept designs by Rick Owens or Hedi Slimane.
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Art Interiors VI

Artworks Johannes Spehr

The naive interiors of Johannes Spehr are inhabited by (half-naked) bodies and builders. Executing naughty practices and performing routined acts. And while doing so, they create chaos, fire, holes, stains and puddles. Demolition, a new kind of home decoration.
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Art Interiors V

Artworks Ken Price

In his Americina interior utopia, Ken Price depicts 'waiting rooms' as the suburban dream of 'things to come'. The protagonists are absent, somewhere outside the Hollywood Hills. Waiting to be discovered - or to be rescued from their boredom.
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Art Interiors IV

Artworks Anette Harboe Flensburg

Paintings as interiors. The imaginary artist room is pink, black and turquoise. Furniture is cozy and inherited, lush and ornamental. Walls, mirrors and windows are inter-changeable. Floors and walls built for psychedelia. Paintings are a must. No one wants to live there, except me. Now we know what sur-reality means.
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Art Interiors III

Artworks Matthias Weischer

And then Weischer invites us in. It's a prostitute playground, an abandonned gambling space. So cozy, but so old-fashioned. Dark wood, fireplaces, powder pastel walls, pillows, vases, Memphis Milano carpets. The smell of cheap perfume and whiskey. Almost every room shows an abstract painting or poster. One wall is adorned with a classical masterpiece. What is sur-reality?
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Art Interiors II

Artworks Mamma Andersson

The rooms of Mamma Andersson are inside and outside at the same time. Walls are decorated with mirrors as paintings and inhabitants are random guests, outsiders, sometimes nudists. They eat, they read, they paint. But do they even exist? Everything is tasteful and decorated. Clothes haphazardly thrown onto 1950s industrial design and heritage pieces. The kitchen is burning. What is sur-reality?
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Art Interiors

Artworks Henri Matisse

The chronological endeavour begins with Monsieur Matisse who presents kitchen interiors with floral tablecloth, cats and distorted piranha aquaria. But who does live here? A lady, a gentleman? Where does the physical room (with furniture as subject) end, where does the background as wallpaper (decorative pattern) begin? What is sur-reality?
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Art Interiors (Prelude)

Alexander Tinei Red Painting , 2013

The painting as painting, the installation as interior, the interior as painting. I would like to invite you into the 'living' psyche of contemporary artists and trespass the threshold of their imaginative rooms. Mind your step.
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Horst Decoration, Issue 8

1. Cabinet Snickeriet, X-Frame Glass Top Table Artek
2. Globe Lamp Verner Panton, Glass Bathtub Boffi
3. Vase Piet Hein Eek, Glass Chair Shiro Kuramata

Welcome to my every hour glass home. I love a clear plastic raincoat, my dear Raf Sander. Thus, I have created its appropriate surrounding, a perfect stage. Everything is so transparent, you can look right through.
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Horst Decoration, Issue 7

1. Melt Chair Nendo, Cabinet Snickeriet, Table Ettore Sottsass
2. Mamma Chair Gaetano Pesce, Chair Rick Owens
3. Il Piede sculpture Gaetano Pesce, Zink shelf Jonas Bohlin

Sculpure as furniture. Symbolism as cushion. Welcome to my fictive 'black and white' home. We will play chess, eat dark chocolate and vanilla ice cream, wear leather and mesh, say 'Yes' or 'No' but never 'Maybe'.
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Concrete Living II

1. Acne Paris & Raf Simons Osaka
2. Acne New York & Jil Sander New York
3. Acne Paris & Raf Simons Tokyo

Venus de Milo as symbol for the modern woman, as icon of orientation, ideals, beauty (q.v. Acne Paris). A strict and steel version of Daedalus' gigantic labyrinth to hold the Minotaur reconstructed by Raf Simons & Gernaine Kruip (q.v. Jil Sander New York). Sterling Ruby's splatter theme and Roger Hiorns's 'crying tears' triangle wallpaper - echoing this disorientation (q.v. Raf Simons Toyko and Osaka).
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A Short History Of The Egg In Popular Culture

1. Hans Finsler Eggs in mirror II, 1929
2. Jeff Koons Cracked Egg, 1995-1997
3. Man Ray Ostrich Egg, 1944
4. Maison Martin Margiela Door-stopper egg, Line 13
5. Josef Sudek Egg and glass, 1952
6. Marjan Pejoski Björk Swan Dress, 2001

When it comes to evolutionary history, artists have taken unanimous position. The egg was first, everything else just follows. The perfect object to be studied, portrayed and decontextualized. Thus, the egg equals David, the icon of (still) life.
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Brutalism's Banquet

Photos Rick Owens

When you discover that brutalism and classicism harmonize as beautifully as the word 'liaison dangereuse'. And suddenly, the person 'Rick Owens' feels deeper, closer and more monarchic than before.
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