We love Moss. It feels like a gallery, with the added bonus that one can realistically purchase the pieces on display. And that's exactly the line between design and art that Studio Job is attempting to blur. They've taken seven functional, everyday objects, yet rendered them useless by magnifying them to resemble a prop from "Honey I Shrunk The Kids." Last evening, we were lucky enough to be invited to the Los Angeles opening of "Homework: Domestic Totems and Tableaux" at Moss. View fellow ATLA blogger Abby helping us show the scale of bronze pots and pans after the jump.
ATLA On The Town: Homework by Studio Job at Moss
Homework consists of seven massive sculptures in polished bronze, including super-sized cooking pots, stools, lanterns, mugs and a coal bin. Each piece is whimsical in design (a la Alice in Wonderland), with the objects appearing too large too use despite the fact that each piece maintains functionality. While Moss is constantly blurring the edge of art and design, they raise a new question with Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job. Have the pair crossed the line with Homework? By rendering a coffee urn workable although useless by its sheer size--can we call it art? Moss does a fantastic job alongside Studio Job by initiating the dialogue between art and design.
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you can realistically buy the items on display there? you're doing much better for yourself than I am.
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"price upon request" - I always found the Moss "do not touch" furniture displays rather pretentious (It's a frigging bath tub - what will happen if I touch it???), and throwing a "major league super party" to promote cookie tins to art fits right in.
There's great design that crosses the boundary to art, but not just because someone says so.
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Moss makes me ill...pretentious, self important, more of a museum with snooty sales assistants who think they are somehow more than clerks.
Come on AT....there's got to be life between Ikea and Moss!
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"Please Do Not Touch"
Touch THIS!!!
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Nothing positive I can add, and speaking as an artist, I totally agree!
A vivid art gallery/museum experience @ 10 yrs old was to impact my view of the "art world" and many of it's (so called) "artist's," and those who fawn over them and their (so called) "art:"
A 6' x 6' white canvas w/a black dot the size of a quarter in the center; the nonsense of written hyperbole by the 'artist' explaining the "meaning" of it all (think something along the lines of '70's EST blather) as well as many of those adults standing around gawking @ said canvas left me, a mere child, recalling a favorite fairytale named, The Emporer's New Clothes.
Much of what continues to attempt to pass as "art" is nothing more than a wanna-be-king standing naked in the town square while those who are either woefully ignorant, or gutless sycophants proclaim the magnificence of his invisible refinery.
Barnum said it best .....
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