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- February 19, 2019
Mattia Biagi's Metropolitan Sets
During the inaugural Frieze Los Angeles, 1stdibs and THE NEW presented a multisensory exhibition produced by Italian multimedia artist Mattia Biagi. The installation features his original art alongside furniture, lighting, and objects that evoke the desire to comb the past and present.
Premiering at The Badd House, a new exhibition space located in the legendary Spago restaurant in West Hollywood, Metropolitan Sets brings together Biagi's new sculptural collage with several pieces from Twentieth's collection, including works by Videre Licet, Christopher Boots, Larose Guyon, Matt Gagnon, Pelle, and Fernando Mastrangelo.
In Biagi's words, Metropolitan Sets expresses the "personal investigation of the artist straddling life and death, nature and civilization, preservation and transformation. The images used to build the bodies of the pieces are references emerging from a lifetime of photographic clippings accumulated in the midst of magazines, pornography, art history, and personal photos." After having been directly printed on wood with a multilayered ink process, the images were cutout and assembled onto a classic furniture form. This anthology of memories, visions and experiences allows Biagi to draw directly from his subconscious to create a three-dimensional statuary collage.
Premiering to a packed house on February 15, Biagi's installation lasts until February 26 at the Badd House, at which point it will be reinstalled at THE NEW gallery. Read more about the installation here.
- January 31, 2019
Surface in Surface
In front of a large crowd of designers, artists, and filmmakers, David van Eyssen's Surface premiered at the Twentieth gallery on January 24. The video work features the six meter Limited Edition Surface Table by Established & Sons, on display for the first time in North America exclusively at Twentieth.
Fittingly, the Surface Table and van Eyssen's piece were exclusively featured in Surface magazine.
As the article recounts, the table’s otherworldliness resonated with video artist David Van Eyssen, whose head immediately went to the clouds. “I was struck by the table’s startlingly thin profile, which suggests an endless horizon provoking images of a barren planet—a clean slate on which life could begin again,” he muses. Thus, his latest project was born.
The video follows the journey of dancers Candace Cane, Lauren Avon, and Ghislain Grellier as they freely evolve on and under the table. Backdropping the trio is Mattia Biagi’s melting tar chandelier and large-scale photographic prints by Daniele Albright. And much like the Twentieth pieces starring in the video, cosmic references take center stage. Lunar imagery from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio and footage of the first-ever video recording from Mars is overlaid, as are sounds of Martian winds captured by the Insight rover. “I suggested that we think about the movement of Insight as it comes to life after landing on alien soil,” says Van Eyssen. “Humans are emulating a machine that, with its outstretched armature and cameras for eyes, emulates humans.”
Watch the entirety of van Eyssen's video work, Surface here:
And check out some shots from the premiere:
Stefan Lawrence and Mattia Biagi
- July 09, 2018
Videre Licet featured in Gio Journal
- December 29, 2017
New from Videre Licet
- October 06, 2017
Seasons on Behance
The Equipal Chair by Luteca and Laurent 09 lamp by Lambert & Fils studio were recently featured on Behance for their Seasons article. - October 06, 2017
Lambert & Fils at Paris Design Week
Catch Lambert & Fils at Paris Design Week with their Réflecteur window display. A reinterpreted staging of their Laurent collection.
- October 06, 2017
Christopher Boots and Twentieth in Architectural Digest
Think Piece: Christopher Boots on the Healing Power of Minerals
Christopher Boots’s bronze folding screen shimmers with quartz and lapis lazuliIn his native Melbourne, industrial designer Christopher Boots grew up hunting rocks. His favorite find? Quartz. These days, hunks of the common crystal join a sprinkling of lapis lazuli in the Aussie’s first room divider. “I like to get my hands dirty,” says Boots, who cast the celestial screen in bronze using a lost-wax method to leave hand marks and a surface-of-the-moon texture on the limited edition of eight. Of his innate draw to minerals, the designer says: “I do believe in their healing power. We would probably improve as a species if we had more elements of nature in our interiors.” Available through Twentieth in Los Angeles.
Read the full article here
- October 06, 2017
on display: Christopher Boots Vanity Screen
Christopher Boots, Vanity Screen, 2017
Lost wax bronze, clear quartz, smoky quartz & lapis lazuli
Edition of 8Christopher Boots spectacular creation, Vanity Screen, is a project of love that has taken four years to realize. Presented at Collective Design in New York in May 2017, the room divider incorporates clear and smoky quartz crystal and lapis lazuli in contrast to a moon like surface cast in solid bronze. The celestial screen is the first in a limited edition of eight.
“In his native Melbourne, industrial designer Christopher Boots grew up hunting rocks. His favorite kind? Quartz. These days, hunks of the common crystal join a sprinkling of lapis lazuli in the Aussie's first room divider. 'I like to get my hands dirty,' says Boots, who cast the celestial screen in bronze using a lost-wax method to leave hand marks and a surface-of-the-moon texture on the limited edition of eight. Of his innate draw to minerals, the designer says: 'I do believe in their healing power. We would probably improve as a species if we had more elements of nature in our interiors.' " (Architectural Digest, September 2017)
Christopher Boots Studio produces a range of custom works both for clients and for design and process development. These pieces are intended to push the limits of the design process and explore materiality in order to advance the designer's craft and vision.For more information please contact sales@twentieth.net
- October 06, 2017
Daniele Albright is this week's featured artist on Artsy.net
Listed as one of Artsy.net's featured artists this week is Daniele Albright, showcasing her diverse body of work.
- October 06, 2017
Making Of: Tom Dixon S Chair
View the S Chair on Twentieth: http://www.twentieth.net/s-chair/#.WYOIIpcUiUk