'Frozen Culture' Assemblage Video Cassette Lounge Chair, Lionel Jadot, 2020

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'Frozen Culture' Assemblage Video Cassette Lounge Chair, Lionel Jadot, 2020

Name: 'Frozen Culture' Assemblage Video Cassette Lounge Chair, Lionel Jadot, 2020
Brand: Lionel Jadot
Rating: 4.8 (71 reviews)

About the Item

The ‘Frozen Culture’ chair is a unique functional art piece with a history. Constructed from a set of 35,000 VHS cassettes that were recorded over the course of 25 years by an individual and later bought by Lionel Jadot. The collector was a graphic designer who had decorated each cassette label. For Jadot, the cassettes in themselves are a work of art, and constructing a seat from them gives the work a new meaning and function. ‘Frozen Culture’ was exhibited in Lionel Jadot's Solo Exhibition 'ENTHRONE DETHRONE Chapter 02' at Everyday Gallery, Antwerp. Born in Brussels in 1969, Lionel Jadot is an interior designer, artist, designer, filmmaker, adventurer. But all at once, preferably. Lionel Jadot is firing on all cylinders. ‘I never throw anything, I pick up everything. Not having a green thumb, I’m trying cuttings, weddings against nature. I never forget a line.’ He’s inviting us in subtle, off-beat worlds, on the edge of reality. Its material is made of dilated time. A wandering spirit, he seeks a protective balance in a hostile world. It is his constant questioning: what happens to the place where we live? For Lionel Jadot, everything is an object, everything is history. He draws from other places, other times, and seeks what’s linking them. He sews, stitches, unpicks, blends materials, combines eras. He will enshrine some wood essence in metal, some mineral in a plant, the old in the new. ‘I take extra care to the joint between two materials.’ With him, there is always some play in the parts, as in a piece of machinery. From a kingdom to another, he provokes organic, viral growths, generating energy. Linking past and future, he never forgets a line. ‘I accumulate them.’ He’s inviting us in subtle worlds, off-beat, on the edge of reality. Are we in 1930 or 2030? Both, no doubt. Its material is made of dilated time. The eye goes hand in hand with the ear. ‘When I walk into a place, I listen to the good (or bad) it does to me. An ineffable feeling.’ He recreates mutant buildings, like the future Royal Botanique, a 5 stars hotel housed in the Church of the Gesu, a former convent behind a 1940 façade. He talks about a ‘hotel object’, which he holds and turns around in his hand. A wandering spirit, he’s flirting with retro-futurism. The Jam, another hotel, is intended for urban travellers, fans of swiftness, fluidity, and hospitality. He designs interiors as a set of objects: a motorcycle cut in concrete becomes a bar counter. He finds gothic cartoon echoes, from the likes of Moebius, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Enki Bilal, sets from Garage Hermétique and Blade Runner, a protective balance in a hostile world. Discovering Jadot’s little cosmos of collected and accumulated goods, it becomes clear that every element has its own story. I tried to collect them and in turn, devour them in the coming paragraphs. But first: the show is best experienced seated, barring the distinction between the object of use and object of attention, they invite for different types of conversation. The seats, chairs, thrones all make us think of our own physical comportment, and of how the seat lends grandeur to the person sitting on it, by crowning its presence. The crackling floor, the felt walls, and the diffused light slows you down into an oddly absorbing environment, in which you are left puzzled. In the eclectic collages of objects, bits and pieces collected all over the world come together in ways practical, and logical, though possibly only in the artist’s mind. All his finds eventually seem to fall into place. Starting with the mere conception of a chair, rather than with a set-out plan or sketch, the works are intuitively construed out of an archive that one can only imagine the dimensions of. Things forgotten by others, precious for him, were all once designed for their own purpose. Here they find their fit as a base, a closing system or a balancing element. Stories assembled at goodwill, Lionel Jadot finds solutions while playfully paving its very own middle ground between art and object.

Creator:
Lionel Jadot (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 29.93 in (76 cm)Width: 21.66 in (55 cm)Depth: 47.25 in (120 cm)Seat Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)
Style:
Post-Modern (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Other
Place of Origin:
Belgium
Period:
2010-
Date of Manufacture:
2020
Production Type:
New & Custom(One of a Kind)
Estimated Production Time:
Available Now
Condition:
Seller Location:
Antwerp, BE
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU933419739412

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