Hasta La Ideas

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pa href=”http://www.danishcrafts.org/”Danish Crafts/a will be presenting a href=”http://www.danishcrafts.org/visArtikel.uk.asp?artikelID=1856″emMindcraft/em/a for the third time in Milan this year, continuing to bring a selection of the best of Danish craftspeople to Zona Tortona. The exhibit, entitled “Would You Mind,” presents an “open-minded approach to form and materials,” representing the edge of formal and material experimentation, while situating craft in a dialogue with art and design. /p

pMathias Bengston’s emPaper Chair/em, for example, mixes both digital and handmaking process to create a chair from recycled paper. Each of the 2000 profiles is coated with a thin film of glue, then stacked together and exposed to both pressure and heat, forming a “homogenous 3-dimensional body.” Bengston uses both black and white paper to highlight the form and lend it a graphic nature./p

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pIsabel Berglund’s emCloset Knitter/em, is a completely hand-knit, white closet, containing a chair with a sweater for a seat and a floating wig/light socket. Conflating function, texture, surreality, and occupiability, the work seeks to “move between categories such as design, art and fashion.”/p

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pKatrin Borup’s emHeavy Metal/em, maybe the cheekiest of all the Mindcraft projects, is a golden ring with a giant rock for a gem, carved by a stone cutter. Not just a visual joke, the ring alludes to an important backstorymdash;in order to produce an ounce of gold, a big chunk of mountain is removed and crushed. Next year, we’d like to see a ring that represents all the gold produced in the world every year, a href=”http://www.howstuffworks.com/question213.htm”said to fit in a 14ft cube./a/p

pSee the rest of the participating designers in Milan./p

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