Le Guin’s Carrier bag theory explaining how containers have always played an essential, and perhaps, underestimated role throughout the whole history of mankind the container understood as the body, the dwelling space, the library, the museum, the womb, the matrix.Ĭomforts consists of a series of meticulously hand-embraided textiles, that besides from their geometrical patterns and particular bleached and dyed color schemes, immediately triggers the haptic and perhaps even synesthetic sense in any visitor, who is able to imagine how comfortable a blanket wrapped around you feels like and how any kind of fabric functions as something protecting as a separating layer and connecting point between our bodies and the world. The former functioning literally as striking, sculptural containers for anything, any thought, any idea, any purpose or simply pure energy. Bringing his personal archive consisting in 10 years of gathering bits and pieces from here and there, he has within the past month been assembling these almost “forgotten” images in new/old, intuitive/orchestrated constellations of Principles.ĭuring his residency at CCA Andratx, Monies has besides continued developing two ongoing series of works: his ceramic and polystyreneContainers and his tapestr圜omforts. 6: “Cause and Effect”, stating that the chance is merely a term in describing something that is unknown to our planes of existence. Karl Monies believes less in chance by working accordingly to the7 Hermetic Principles, one of them being correspondence, “As Above, So Below”, another one being the pendulum movement of Rhythm, and perhaps most interestingly is in this context the principle no. The kingdom above or the darkness below it is for him to choose.” His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. Monod concludes, inspired from the Existentialists, that “man knows at last he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he has emerged only by chance. Inspired by the title of the book by the French Nobel-Prize winning biochemist Jacques Monod from 1970, CCA intends to question the relationship between chance encounters, coincidences and opportunities and the necessity to make a choice. Performance by Kristoffer Raasted 18.00 pm.Kristian Kragelund (DK), Elisabeth Molin (DK), Karl Monies (DK) andĬCA Andratx is excited to present the group exhibition Le Hasard et la Nécessité which unfolds four different artistic expressions delving into the space between Chance and Necessity. By recalling the classical modernistic catchphrase ”l’art pour l’art” (art for art’s sake), Unfunctionality twists this view into a contemporary interpretation of the concept of design, exhibiting post-functional objects that explores the crossover between the realm of art and design and the firmly established idea of functionality – or unfunctionality – linked to this distinction. The exhibition contemplates the debate on aesthetics and function and challenges the traditional conception of design as having primarily functional purpose inherited from the modernism. Design-based artworks, sculptural flower-stands, organic ceramic sculptures, colourful crochet rugs, soft neon- works, wall decorations and an intangible lyrical performance are unfolded in the gallery space. The contributing artists are Anna Stahn, Cathrine Raben Davidsen, Karl Monies, Lulu Kaalund, Nat Bloch Gregersen, Studio ThinkingHand and Kristoffer Raasted presenting unique works that emphasize materiality and textural sensuousness. Perhaps what we need is more unfunctionality?Īlice Folker Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition, which rethinks the concept of design, materials and sustainability. Art offers this momental space of breath freed time and space, freed from our functionalized society. The purpose is nothing less than the presence itself. The question arising is, what then is the purpose of a functionless object? The phenomenon of unfunctionality points toward an empty space, an in-between open for interpretation and a sphere of the aesthetic and poetic care and enjoyment of the self enriching our lives. Just think about the common phrase “out of order”, which by defining the lack of functional quality, implies a rejection of society left behind, trashed and forgotten as useless cast-off of our material world. The state of the unfunctional can be said to be a fundamental anxiety of this society based on efficiency and optimization. Chained to everyday life ideas of function, utility, measurable results, linear time and schedules, everything finds its existential eligibility by having a certain purpose – from the things we surround ourselves by to our own human bodies and lives. In our hectic modern life functionality has become close to serve as an ideology. Unfunctionality – A group exhibition by Anna Stahn, Cathrine Raben Davidsen, Karl Monies, Lulu Kaalund, Nat Bloch Gregersen and Studio ThinkingHand
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