adieu

ADIEU
with Greg Bethel

2009
gas-fireplace ‘logs’
for the ardent modernist
slip-cast porcelain

For the ardent modernist, these porcelain, gas-fireplace “logs” offer a torrid farewell to our stylistic past: “Goodbye, Queen Anne.” “So long, Mister Chippendale.” “Farewell, William, and to you, Mary.” (And this project may also symbolize our current historic period—one of global financial crisis, where furniture is burned not for the crime of ornament, but out of economic exigency.)

“To me, and to all the cultivated people, ornament does not increase the pleasures of life. If I want to eat a piece of gingerbread I will choose one that is completely plain…Modern people understand this.” – Adolf Loos

Exhibitions
04.2009
Tuttobene
Milan ITALY

Select Press (web)

feb 09
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