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Unless you’re talking about a furniture catalog, most people wouldn’t be interested in chair photos. Bert Loeschner has taken it upon himself to change that opinion with his inventive, disfigured chair photo series.
Even if chairs aren’t in regular rotation, most homes have at least a few plastic patio chairs. The design is classic and easily recognizable and that is what makes this photo series so good. Bert twists and reworks the legs and arms of the chairs to give them human-like qualities.
The ubiquitous white plastic monobloc chair is at it again – or rather, Bert Loeschner is. The artist and designer uses the infamous garden chair as a canvas for his projects. He explains, “The contrast between the design and the popularity of this chair leads to questions about the value of innovation, aesthetics and functionality in our way of consuming. The function of a chair is way more than sitting. It also exists to represent, present, communicate, protect, assist, to confine and so on…”
In the end, his work serves to inject a little humour – an emotional touch – into the humble and most ordinary.
Transformed using heat, ‘monobloc’, the titled series of reconstructed seating objects by Bert Loeschner is a hands-on project about the ‘infamous garden chair’ and its role in design culture.
the demonstration between both subject and object, these chairs are sometimes functional,
sometimes not.
His work is humorous, depicting emotion characters with their “arms” around each other, or playful swinging chairs. This project makes the viewer regard these typical chairs as less than garden furniture and more like sensitive anthropomorphic objects.
In the end, his work serves to inject a little humor — an emotional touch — into the humble and most ordinary.
- via http://bertloeschner.com/
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