Dimensions: duration: 9min
Copyright: © Simon Martin | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here we have Simon Martin's "Carlton," a work held at the Tate. It reminds me of a child's building blocks, yet somehow, it feels incredibly stable and poised. How do you interpret this work? Curator: Oh, it’s a dance, isn’t it? A playful nod to Memphis design, yet so much more. Each shape, a little story; each color, a feeling. It whispers of postmodern rebellion, a joyful rejection of rigid forms. Do you feel that rebellion? Editor: I do now, especially with your perspective on the colours. What a fascinating deconstruction! Curator: Indeed! Art is about seeing anew, questioning, and feeling. I am glad that you feel that too.
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Carlton is a nine-minute conversation piece about an iconic bookcase, which stands in an empty gallery space. The Carlton bookcase was created in the 1980s by Memphis, the Milanese design group founded by Ettore Sottsass, a grandee of Italian design. With brightly-coloured, print laminate shelves branching out at comical angles, it reads more like a postmodern sculpture than a piece of functional furniture and it is typical of the group’s humorous ‘New Internationalist Style’ which was a reaction against ‘black box’ Bauhaus functionalism.
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