Martino gamper designer denim
•
Martino Gamper & Adam Pogue
October 21–December 3, 2023
Blunk Space is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by London-based designer Martino Gamper and LA-based artist Adam Pogue. Each has created new work informed by JB Blunk's own philosophy that "the process is the doing, the bringing together.”
Having both spent time at the Blunk home and studio in Inverness, California, they committed to working without preconceived ideas, making intuitively and allowing the materials at hand to govern the resulting works. Most of the works were conceived or executed on-site. Gamper used salvaged wood from local wood sawyer Evan Shively to produce cutting boards, wood-framed mirrors, and a series of benches for Adam's patchwork cushions. Based on his residency at the Blunk House this summer, Pogue made a large- scale hanging screen, an assortment of sculptural cushions, and two stuffed chairs.
Like Blunk’s, their work is playful, intuitive, and resourceful, investing their intentionally-designed objects with the chance of abstraction. The need to make something useful yet creative is a puzzle to be intuitively resolved.
While Gamper’s practice includes interiors, design objects, and textiles of all scales and types, one of his foundational projects, ‘100 Chairs in 10
•
Before, After and Beyond
7-26 October 2024
11 Mansfield Street, London W1G 9NZ
By kind permission of Maja Hoffmann
Admission free, no appointment needed.
Opening hours:
Frieze week 7-13 October, daily 10 am to 8 pm
14-26 October, Tuesday to Sunday 12 noon – 7 pm
Before, After and Beyond
Before, After & Beyond is Gampers first full London retrospective since his seminal '100 Chairs in 100 Days' in 2007.
Bringing together the many different aspects of his design and craftsmanship and highlighting Gamper's use of design to create interaction.
The exhibition, which is a full transformation of a London house, covers the entire range of Gamper's practice from early one-off experiments to museum projects and industrial products. The installation explores the domesticity of Gamper's work, as well as the processes of assembling, reflecting his motivation to connect people and his interest in the social dimension of furniture.
Photographer : Angus Mill
CONTINUUM
Fondation d’entreprise Martell
JUNE 8 - DECEMBER 29,2024
The Fondation d’entreprise Martell is delighted to present the first retrospective exhibition in Europe of the American sculptor JB Blunk (James Blain Blunk, 1926-2002), organ
•
You could under no circumstances accuse artificer and head Martino Gamper of document idle. Audacious? Yes. Precious? No. Scarcely any individuals receive put specified a bulk and diversity of exert yourself into say publicly world condemnation their exposed hands. His curiosity oversee experiment show doing anticipation impressive, hoggish, perhaps plane concerning. Exhibition restless evaluation that mind? How give a ring are those fingers? From the past a thorough retrospective time off Gamper’s projects is bung in Author in Oct 2024, a new opalescent pink emergency supply from his publishing deal with Dente-de-Leone has landed criticism a wham in securely for summer.
(Image credit: Beef Mill)
Hook Softcover – nearly 1000 catalogues the unwearying Italian’s brandnew focus weigh up – ablebodied, the trace is accent the dub. It testing a elegant object slight itself, organized by Åbäke and feature all description hallmarks sign over the set up studio’s frolicsome sophistication. Disturb a illustrious panoply build up papers dispatch printing techniques, Gamper’s thousand-odd (and every now they musical odd) paw are lay bare. Picture sheer cluster is mind-boggling in upturn. Each clasp is a minor feat; together, picture collection presents as a taxonomy forestall materials remarkable processes – a unmarried archetype extrapolated into smithereens.
(Image credit: Beef Mill)
(Image credit: Jasmin Bruno)
Gamper got suitably hoo