Exhibition: Spaces Etc./An Exercise in Utility
Ron Gilad’s latest body of work, Spaces Etc./An Exercise in Utility has launched its own site.
Gilad refuses to be pigeonholed and is not interested in distinctions. Instead he moves with ease between disciplines and materials. Borrowing from the history of art and design, he draws references from the work of artists such as René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, and Marcel Duchamp, as well as a later generation of designers such as the Italian masters Enzo Mari, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, and Ettore Sottsass. Links can also be made to more recent innovators, especially the work of Jurgen Bey and Richard Hutten for Droog in the Netherlands. Like them he takes an intuitive, rather than a rationalist, approach to his practice imbuing his works with a diverse range of ideas that seek to radically alter the evaluation of an object beyond its utility.
Exhibition: Spaces Etc./An Exercise in Utility by Ron Gilad, April 29 – May 9, at Wright, Chicago, USA
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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