Tate Modern: Materials and Objects

The Materials and Objects show artists from all over the world using different materials to create. Nowadays, artists try to find a language between materials and art. For example, Kengo Kuma’s design language is the participation of materials1.

Patricia Belli, Broken Column 1996. Lent by the Tate Americas Foundation, courtesy of the Latin American Acquisitions Committee 2018.

The artist attempts to deconstruct and reconstruct the clothes. The reworked clothes are almost transformed into sculptures. In some ways, the material is used to carry memories. These are portraits, while the dresses also have the stories of the people who once wore them.

Jimmie Durham Alpine Ibex 2017

The designer has taken the structure of the ‘chair’ and reconstructed it into a goat, describing the final piece as ‘looking like a science fiction weapon.’ It is also a tribute to the animal species indigenous to Europe.

Reference
1.Kengo Kuma, Kipnis, J. and Fujita, E. (2018). Kengo Kuma : a LAB for Materials. Tokyo, Japan: Shinkenchiku-Sha Co., Ltd.

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