- The catalogue of a major show at the Ca'd'Oro in Venice, presenting
site-specific work by 17 established and emerging artists who explore
the boundaries between art, architecture, and designMust form still
follow function, as Martin Gropius, Le Corbusier, and their followers
proclaimed? Dysfunctional invites a reconsideration of the conventional
relationship between artistic expression and functionality. In an
exhibition organized by the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in the stunning
setting of the Ca'd'Oro in Venice, site-specific works by 17 established
and emerging artists explore the boundaries of art, architecture, and
design. These contemporary artists draw on the rich heritage of Venetian
craftsmanship and the museum's exceptional collection of Italian
masterpieces to create a meaningful dialogue about the 20th century
mantra of form following function. With work located in the realm
between craft and art, each of the artists in the show challenges
preconceptions about what is beautiful and what is useful, what is
historical, and what is modern. Included here are site-specific
installations and furniture-sculpture by Nacho Carbonell, Studio Drift,
Vincent Dubourg and Virgil Abloh, organic benches by Wendell Castle and
Mathieu Lehanneur, and inhabited clocks by Maarten Baas, among others.
