Mingei was an influential part of an international Arts and Crafts movement that responded to the mechanization of industrial production with a complex respect for low culture, folk
produced utilitarian objects of daily usage, and mass produced objects of simple and beautiful design.
Tiravanija
produced this utilitarian object, a set of three benches that together form the message «IOU,» out of mirror - polished stainless steel and in a limited edition of 20.
Not exact matches
Dine, by now considered an important young artist of the period, continued to
produce highly evocative works involving the paraphernalia of everyday life — paintings and constructions of robes, household utensils, ties, toothbrushes and
utilitarian objects placed like props in front of various colored canvases.
In the exhibition, a complex set of relations is
produced between a series of
utilitarian objects, the multiple possibilities they suggest, and the people that activate and
produce them.
One of the school's objectives was to design and
produce unique
utilitarian objects for use in daily modern life.
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.