Design Miami 2022: Fendi presents Triclinium by Austrian artist Lukas Gschwandtner, inspired by reclining female figures and a Roman holiday
are made from an off-white canvas: ‘The material takes away historical, class and gender context and relaxes the eye, so we are concentrating only on the shape and form,’ explains Gschwandtner. He also enjoys its resemblance to calico, the heavy, plain woven cotton textile commonly used in the fashion industry for prototyping garments.are nearing completion and Gschwandtner is preparing to travel to Brussels, where he will assemble them onto three steel chaises longues of his own design.
To recreate the sense of privacy that ancient Roman users of a triclinium would have sought, Gschwandtner will curtain off the Fendi booth at Design Miami 2022 using a thinner version of the canvas from theAnd while projected visitor numbers prevent Gschwandtner from allowing the general public to put on hison this occasion, they will see a video of him and various collaborators modelling the artwork, so as to better demonstrate its relationship with the human body.
For the past few years, as part of its Design Miami commission, Fendi has asked each collaborator to present an interpretation of its iconic, which debuted in 2008. This was a dream assignment for Gschwandtner, who, prior to becoming an artist, had trained as an accessories designer. ‘My response was to fill each compartment of the bag with plaster, so I could understand its inner structure,’ he says. He then cut out the coagulated plaster elements and intends to use them to adorn his installation.
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