Friedman Benda – Andrea Branzi –
Interiors
nature vs. technology, landscape vs.
architecture, wilderness vs. civilization
Italian designer and
architect Andrea Branzi’s second solo exhibition in New York, at Friedman
Benda, until June 11 is entitled Interiors, in which he presents his new Plank
series. Branzi grounds his conceptual and theoretical writing in the
physical works he creates. The Plank series takes abstract ideas about the
history of cultural evolution and roots them in these cabinets. The entire
series plays with the coupling of aluminum and raw wood, along with highlights
of spray paint. While maintaining their individual identities, these materials
become one environment and invite human interaction.
Andrea Branzi
Renowned internationally
for co-founding the design collective Archizoom and Domus Academy as well as
for his role in Italian Radical Architecture, Superarchitettura, Alchimia, and
the Memphis Group, Branzi was celebrated with a solo exhibition at the
Fondation Cartier in 2008 and more recently with a 50-year retrospective at
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Bordeaux in 2014-2015. He will be honored again with
a solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in 2017.
Friedman Benda
Andrea Branzi – Interiors
Wendell Castle and Marc Benda
Barry and Patricia Friedman
Branzi intends the cabinets to be
used as vessels filled with personal objects from daily life
This joining of man-made
and natural materials, of the gestural and the methodical, is an ongoing
exploration in Branzi’s work that dates back to his Animali Domestici series in
the 1980s. Animali Domestici was the first time that Branzi started including
raw trees into his work, a detail that we see included in the Plank series.
Branzi intends the cabinets to be used as vessels filled with personal objects
from daily life. He addresses how new technological developments are changing
the role of the home, allowing it to become a workplace and evolving social
space.
Nicoletta, Andrea and Lorenza Branzi
Guillermo Parada and Sebastian Rozas
Studio Gt2P
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