This weekend: architect and artist Narinna and designer Marc Meeuwissen (Dear Object)
Designer/ceramist Massimo Pavan and curator Helma Vlemmings invite designers, architects and artists every weekend who introduce themselves, reflect on the objects or add their personal work to the exhibition of Massimo Pavan. This weekend Narinna and Marc Meeuwissen are the special guests of Massimo Pavan and Helma Vlemmings.
Saturday 03 May - 2:00 PM: Architect and artist Narinna
Narinna’s drawings, which consist mainly of monochrome, repetitive lines, come across as minimal and shrouded in intriguing complexity. As an architect, she is naturally interested in spatial representation, but in her artistic exploration she leaves her background behind to explore the perceptual interpretation of space.
Narinna’s thinking is largely focused on the environment of artificiality. She works mainly on paper, but her work also extends to animation, painting and sculpture.
Narinna was born in Yerevan in 1986 and lives in Rotterdam.
The urge to rethink chess pieces has been simmering for years
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an instinct that investigating them might lead to something valuable, but how do you approach that task?
Where does the essence of the piece lie?
Is it in its role within the kingdom?
In the hierarchy between the pieces?
What defines the shape?
And what are the consequences of ignoring classical standards?
Would a minimal, undressed set be less playable?
Or could it actually improve gameplay?
Sunday 4 May - 2:00 PM: designer Marc Meeuwissen (Dear Objects)
Marc Meeuwissen works in Antwerp (Belgium) and Bergen op Zoom (the Netherlands), and lives in Antwerp. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design St. Joost in Breda, he founded Absoluut Designers in 1990, a studio for graphic and 3D design in Bergen op Zoom, which transformed into No-But in 2022.
Dear Objects was launched in 2012 to present commissioned 3D projects with an autonomous approach. In 2019, he chose to create completely autonomous work, unique pieces or objects in small editions under the same name.
Brutalist architecture, typography and archetypes are an important source of inspiration. The ‘MAKE AND BREAK’ series is cut from cement-bonded fibreboard. The set is assembled into one object -MAKE- and then manually taken apart -BREAK-.
ROOM FOR MASSIMO PAVAN runs from April 5 to May 11.