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‘Tale of Frac’ Hand-carved Contemporary Armchair, touche—touche, France, 2020
About the Item
'Tale of Frac' armchair is a contemporary functional art object created by artistic duo touche—touche.
touche—touche are interested in tactile exploration, creating illusions by manipulating soft materials to look and feel like hard surfaces, and vice-versa. For this unique armchair, the design has been hand-carved the design from polyether foam and then coated in a polyurethane solution to harden the exterior and provide protection from water. The intelligent combination of materials gives the illusion of a rock-like surface as if the chair had been chiseled from stone. Areas of intricate detail, reminiscent of fossil formations make this unique chair seem as if it has only recently been discovered from prehistoric times.
This one-of-a-kind item was part of touche—touche's solo exhibition 'Softalism' in Everyday Gallery, Antwerp.
The exhibition’s title 'Softalism' is a neologism that invites the invention of a concept that may emphasise the sensual relation we form with our surroundings. touche—touche will make us explore the confines of one of the most sacred of places: the bedroom.
Carolin Gieszner (1989, DE) and Théo Demans (1992, FR) work and live together as the couple duo touche—touche.
They developed a hybrid creation process by placing their work in the scenographic realm as much as the curatorial practice and that of functional installations.
Moving from the museum to the theatre world, designing nightclubs, or a recording studio to immersive cinema rooms and galleries they are implementing their practice through a collaborative journey.
The evasive practice of touche—touche transports the viewer to an Empire of dreamlike experience and tactile illusions.
Melting tiles, soft rocks, absurd gravity, and abstract sciences are some of the matters they employ: simulated textures and artificiality give the viewer a highlighted awareness of touch and redirect objects into a mental image. Senses are played with and pragmatic interaction slowly resides to a secondary position.
Each imagined scene is a reinterpretation of existing cultural traditions. Manufactured in intricate detail, using contemporary materials and techniques, they create new fiction for daily scenarios. Their environments are a free fall intangible reality.
- Dimensions:Height: 31.89 in (81 cm)Width: 39.38 in (100 cm)Depth: 39.38 in (100 cm)
- Style:Post-Modern (In the Style Of)
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- Date of Manufacture:2020
- Production Type:New & Custom(One of a Kind)
- Estimated Production Time:Available Now
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- Seller Location:Antwerp, BE
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU933420797092
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