2023年7月1日-9月30日 周二至周日11:00-18:00
上海市黄浦区四川中路133号3楼
Tuesday to Sunday 11:00-18:00
July 1 to September 30, 2023
3rd Floor, No. 133 Sichuan Middle Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai
Gallery Sohe很荣幸宣布全新展览“Historical Present 功能共时”于2023年7月1日开幕。Historical present原指历史现在式，即调动当下的表达方式叙述过去发生的事件。由新锐设计师双人组Soft Baroque在作品中使用现代主义逻辑作为展览出发点，我们集合了同样以功能和材料作为前提的新旧理性主义实践。此次展览将呈现设计师：Soft Baroque、Pierre Jeanneret、Rei Kawakubo 川久保玲、Mathieu Mategot、Charlotte Perriand、Jean Prouvé的家具作品。
展览现场，“功能共时”，2023
在二十世纪三十年代左右，一众建筑师和设计师开始放弃彼时盛行的新艺术风格（Art Nouveau），转入一条实验前卫的现代主义道路，从功能和生产角度去发展新技术，将新材料和建筑材料带入家居环境，并着重于诸如学校和公寓大楼等集体生活环境。大部分现代主义设计师对于装饰的极端态度在当时并没有获得热烈反响。时过境迁，现如今现代主义已经成为了最为普遍的风格，人们都热衷于用反装饰去装饰生活环境，并把各种本来用于集体环境的物件带入私人空间，放大建筑元素的装饰性。
In the 1930s, a group of architects and designers began to discard the popular Art Nouveau style of the time and set off down the experimental, avant-garde path of modernism, developing new technologies from the perspectives of function and production, bringing new materials and architectural materials into the home setting, and focusing their attention on schools, apartment buildings, and other shared living environments. The extreme attitudes on ornamentation held by most modernist architects of the time were not warmly received by the public, but with the passage of time, modernism has become the most ubiquitous style, with people happily employing anti-decorative approaches to decorating their living environments, and bringing objects originally from collective environments into private space to magnify the decorative aspects of architectural elements.
▲ SM Shelf, Armchair, SM Bench from Soft Baroque
▲ Coffee Table from Soft Baroque High Court Sofa from Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier Standing Lamp from Serge Mouille
▲ Coffee Table, Shelf, Vase from Soft Baroque High Court Sofa from Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier Standing Lamp from Serge Mouille
▲ SM Wall Shelf, SM Coffee Table from Soft Baroque Daybed from Jean Prouvé Lounge Chair from Mathieu Matégot
“现代主义是一个极其笼统的概念，在建筑、艺术、文学等不同的领域意义各异。然而，在设计和建筑界，与其他领域和运动不同的是，它已经蜕变得在全球范围内无处不在，有利有弊。对于我们来说，我们在工作中使用某种现代主义的逻辑，以功能和材料作为前提，但把它们带到一种新发明的理性主义，例如装饰性地雕刻‘侵蚀’的铝型材。”欧洲设计双人组Soft Baroque在谈到现代主义时这样说。
“Modernism is a super general idea and means different things in different fields architecture, art literature ect. However, in the design and architecture world, unlike the other fields and movements, it has morphed and became completely globally ubiquitous, for better and worse. We use a certain modernist logic in our work, functional premises and materials, but take them to a new invented rationality, like decoratively carving rotting aluminium box sections.,” says European design duo Soft Baroque.
▲ SM Table Light from Soft Baroque Dining Table, Office Chair from Pierre Jeanneret
▲ Lamp from Soft Baroque Easy Chair, Round Coffee Table from Pierre Jeanneret Screen from Jean Prouvé
▲ SM Coffee Table Soft Baroque Lounge Chair from Mathieu Matégot
▲ Sling Chair, Vase, Shelf from Soft Baroque Compas Table, Sun Shutter from Jean Prouvé
▲ Side Table Soft Baroque Low Bench from Charlotte Perriand Chair from Rei Kawakubo
▲ Low Bench from Charlotte Perriand Scissor Chair from Pierre Jeanneret
作为当下最炙手可热的当代设计师，Soft Baroque以自己独特的方式去质疑物质文化，创造游离于艺术与设计间的家具作品。他们在造型上参考如维也纳分离派和Josef Hoffmann等现代主义经典，在人们可辨识的基础上，通过普通材料、自我研发工艺、自我建造痕迹去将事物带到极其新鲜的境地。一种新装饰冉冉升起。现代与当代的呼应与反叛，以及这种历史中的价值转换，让我们不禁思索设计的现在究竟意味着什么。Historical Present展览是一次对装饰和价值的探索，让我们去聆听那些在各个不同时期脱离潮流、拒绝规则的创新者们之间的对话，以及这些不同的声音在经历时间洗礼后的样貌。
As one of the hottest design studios today, Soft Baroque uses its unique approach to cast doubt on material culture and to create furniture that straddles the line between art and design. Their forms reference classics of the modernist cannon from the Vienna Succession to Josef Hoffmann. On a foundation of recognizability, they develop unique techniques and traces of workmanship to bring ordinary materials to entirely new places, giving rise to a new form of ornamentation. The interplay and rebellion between modern and contemporary, and shifts in values throughout this history, beckon us to ponder what design truly means today. The Historical Present exhibition is an exploration of ornamentation and value. Let us listen to the dialogue between innovators who have stood apart from the trends and defied convention throughout history, and how their voices have stood up to the test of time.
▲ SM Table Light, SM Chair, Screen from Soft Baroque Reading Desk from Pierre Jeanneret
▲ SM Shelf, SM Bench from Soft Baroque
▲ Sling Chair from Soft Baroque Compas Table from Jean Prouvé
▲ Vase, Shelf from Soft Baroque
▲ SM Entrance Table from Soft Baroque
▲ Lamp from Soft Baroque
