'Dormeuse Small' Sculptural Foam Bench, Coffee Table and Bunny by Aki Kuroda

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'Dormeuse Small' Sculptural Foam Bench, Coffee Table and Bunny by Aki Kuroda

About the Item

Aki Kuroda’s 'Dormeuse small' was created in 2007 for his solo exhibition, Cosmocity, at the Rabih Hage Gallery, London. The series of limited edition “sculpture-furniture” pieces formed part of Kuroda’s London iteration of his ongoing cosmogarden installation series. Edition 1/18 ‘Kuroda has always worked across a range of media, but most startling here is how his sketched or painterly forms have walked off paper or canvas into three dimensions. Biomorphic shapes have become resin sculptures or huge pieces of foam (“Manga Sofa”, “Dormeuse”) which look like spongy fragments with holes, Big Bang relics. But they are also utilitarian, democratic –an art of functional beauty for the 21st century age of design– even as their floating, ethereal quality appears to defy gravity. In “Flower Bench”, Kuroda draws in space to create an object as flat and insouciant as a young British artist installation, yet full of lyricism of the everyday, a lightness of being recalling Giacometti or David Smith. Cosmogarden is the fantasy world which has preoccupied Kuroda since 1990, in projects stretching from paintings and drawings of bizarre animal and plant life to a fantastical Cosmo city made vivid in murals, installations, performance art, happenings –including Japanese tea ceremonies– in sites in Paris, Avignon, Ivry, Tokyo, Osaka. The sculpted furniture here –you can sit or lounge on it, crawl or hide inside it– adds a new dimension to the artist’s evolving invitation to physically enter his imaginary universe.’ –Jackie Wullschlager.

Creator:
Aki Kuroda (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 17.72 in (45 cm)Width: 78.75 in (200 cm)Depth: 33.08 in (84 cm)Seat Height: 17.72 in (45 cm)
Style:
Post-Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Foam,Textile
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
2000-2009
Date of Manufacture:
2007
Production Type:
New & Custom(Limited Edition)
Estimated Production Time:
Available Now
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: 000511stDibs: LU278238168643