Wendell Castle "Volumes and Voids"
Barry Friedman Ltd.
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The exhibition at Barry Friedman Ltd will feature a series of new unique and limited edition furniture, each with a generosity, freedom of expression and confidence in execution not seen before. Multiple dimensions are explored as Castle expands on the possibilities of voids and volumes. Castle augments, re-configures, and gives girth to many familiar shapes – mirror-image chairs, a settee, desk and tables – and the end result is of a new magnitude - fluidly merged, amorphous elements form surprisingly functional furniture.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is an installation - a grid of nine unique wood tables, each emanating from an identical stack-laminated base and each taking on a differentiated identity as it rises to the tabletop. The repetition of identical bases create an illusion that each table is formed from a solid block, referencing classical Greco-Roman figurative sculpture in which the base tends to be left in raw form, showing the origin of the material as it develops upwards, almost organically.
[Image: Wendell Castle "Curious Paradox" (2012) Stained ash with oil finish, 33.375 x 18.875 x 18.875 in.,
Photography by Jon Lam]
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Schedule
from October 25, 2012 to January 26, 2013