Join us for an evening of design, drinks and art on January 24 with the premiere of Surface, a new video work by David Van Eyssen featuring Established & Sons' Limited Edition Surface Table.

The L6000 Limited Edition Surface Table, now exclusively on view for the first time in North America at Twentieth, measures an impressive 6 meters long (19.7 feet) and only 4mm (0.15 inches) thick. A true engineering accomplishment, the Surface Table is an original design by Royal Designers for Industry Terence Woodgate and F1 racing car designer John Barnard. It uses state-of-the-art auto-sport technology to exploit the inherent rigidity and strength of carbon fiber. Despite its incredible thinness and minimalist stature, the table can hold the weight of F1 car and from a visual standpoint acts like a perfect mirror thanks to its smooth, ethereal finish.



Surface (2019) is the latest in a series of video works by David van Eyssen, whose work focuses on the human form and the compression and fragmentation of space and time. The film follows dancers Candace Cane, Lauren Avon and Ghislain Grellier as they freely evolve on Established & Sons' Surface Table. The film also incorporates lunar imagery from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio, and the agency's first recording from Mars.

As Van Eyssen describes the piece, "At first sight, the table evoked a platform, a stage — a blank slate on which I could tell a ’story with no story’, a kind of dream-state antidote to linear narrative. And, with its endless razor-thin profile, it also suggested the horizon of another world. My immediate response was to connect the exploration of space with the table, to echo the physics-defying design with figures moving in low-gravity. The object’s newness, its futuristic material and form, implied a technological awakening — the dawn of a new age — so the dancers’ movements drew on that idea, taking their cues from Insight, the Mars rover, as it wakes on the surface of an alien world."

Join us for the premiere of Surface Thursday, January 24 from 6-8pm at the Twentieth gallery in Los Angeles. Please rsvp@nescreative.com to attend.



 Dancers Candace Cane, Lauren Avon and Ghislain Grellier. Stills from Surface by David Van Eyssen, 2019.