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Man Made
shelving unit (high)
Peter Marigold
designer:
Peter Marigold
design year:
2009
notes:
The work shown here was made in December 2009 â€" January 2010, while London-based artist Peter Marigold was attending a Winter Artist Residency at NKD (Nordic Artists' Centre Dalsåsen) in Dale, Norway; additional pieces were created later especially for the exhibition 'Make Me' at Moss. Each piece of furniture is made from a single log by cutting successively smaller L-profiles, thus maintaining structure while retaining as much raw material as possible. The final dimensions and form of each piece of furniture are therefore determined by the size and shape of the original log. There is no waste. By definition, each piece of Man Made is therefore a unique example. Although created while Marigold was surrounded by a very simple, natural landscape, he endeavoured to produce forms that spoke of the human processing of natural materials to man's advantage â€" resulting in a hybrid of industrial and rural aesthetics. Hence the collection name, 'Man Made', juxtaposed with the almost synthetic red finish. Marigold writes of the color he chose to finish the surface of 'Man Made': "One day while in Norway I was walking through the forests and I came across a dead bird â€" it was possibly killed by another animal as there was red blood spilled over the snow. After a month of seeing the same colors - mostly white, black and green - to see this splash of color was quite surprising. It reminded of the etymological connection between the Russian words for beautiful and red: краÑивый краÑный and I thought that the reason for this must come from the same experience of seeing red after a long period of Winter. Red = beautiful."
materials:
painted Norwegian pine
dimensions:
19.5" x 13.75", height: 63"
price:
$4,500 |
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