To round out the fair, the Design section is curated by industrial designer and curator Cecilia León de la Barra who will link the art and design worlds with limited editions
of utilitarian objects by cutting edge designers.
In addition to the traditional galleries in the Main Section, the fair will also invite 19 galleries to present solo projects by artists under the age of 35 in New Proposals, 21 galleries presenting work that confronts social identity in the world in Zona MACO South, 6 galleries focusing on Modern Art, and 22 galleries that fuse art and design by presenting limited
editions of utilitarian objects.
Many of his works play with the
forms of utilitarian objects and take a «finish fetish» approach to commercial and industrial materials not typically used by artists of his generation.
Rodchenko's subsequent trajectory would lead him to documentary photography and the
production of utilitarian objects, moving from the protection of the art gallery to the streets, stores, newspapers and magazines of a newly revolutionary society.
Alongside an 1885
gift of utilitarian objects by Rev. Josiah Tyler, the Southern African holdings include traditional sculptures from South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Madagascar, and a strong representation of contemporary prints and photographs by artists including William Kentridge, Guy Tillim, Nomusa Makhubu, Gideon Mendel, Berni Searle, and Candice Breitz.
The ceramic objects are often
echoes of utilitarian objects or replacing the action of the body with a strong connection to psychoanalytic theory as well as art history.
In the context of Condorelli's exhibition, friendship characterised the complex set of relations produced between a
series of utilitarian objects, the multiple possibilities they suggest, and the people that activate and produce them.
Each of these utilitarian objects was stripped of its original use value and combined to form a series of makeshift shelters and abodes.
Garry Knox Bennett's intricate objects take a surreal and innovative approach that subverts expectations one might have
of a utilitarian object.