The Plinth Project

TTWMP 071116

Anton Alvarez

Materials: Polyester thread, PVA glue, plywood from crates of Taiwan show (2016), plastic bag, OSB, Pine wood, black painted steel, Ash wood, Osmo oiled Ash wood, felt pads, blue paint.

Dimensions: 40 x 45 x 112 cm

2016

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About: Anton Alvarez (b. 1980, Sweden) spent two years developing a machine that spins thounds of metres of brightly coloured thread around pieces of wood and metal to join them, at first producing solid furniture and objects like stools, benches and lamps, and later expanding his process to include large-scale architectural installations. 

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THE HURRICANE HASN'T PASSED

FOS

Materials: concrete, OSB, stone

Dimensions: 55 x 45 x 95 cm

2012

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OPDIUM

Fredrik Paulsen

Materials: MDF, paint

Dimensions: 90 x 40 x 34.5 cm

2016

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About: Flexible MDF is mounted inside-out on a double curved surface. This reveals the material's milled groves creating a vibrating pattern.

THE BIG BANG AND OTHER EXPLANATIONS

Hilda Hellström

Materials: Polymer modified plaster, pigment

Dimensions: 25 x 25 x 90 cm

2016

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About: For the Plinth Project, Hellström has worked with her seminal Sedimentation technique. When applied to the cubic shape of a plinth, Hellström discovered the similarities it had to schematic diagrams over the structure of the earth. To play along with these associations, she used a technique o finales to create figurative icon-like images within the cube. The images tell three stories explaining the origin of the earth. There's the Midgard serpent from Norse Mythology surrounding the earth, the hand of God looking over the creation of the mountains and lastly the Big Bang.

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OH GEE

James Shaw

Materials: Digitally printed carpet

Dimensions: 150 x 73 x 0.5 cm/180 x 46 x 0.5 cm/120 x 120 x 0.5 cm

2016

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About: The Carpet is a hybrid object between architecture and furniture. In mass-culture away from salons of design it is a key area of expression where people interact with the appearance of their homes.

The plinth emerged through classical antiquity: a box decorated with the language of architecture, comings, moldings et al. merging sculptures with their surrounding.

Essentially moulding are simple devices to hide junctions between materials and planes, but they have developed their own mystique. A mainstay of DIY superstores - the mass-market venue for dissemination of architecture - is the polystyrene architrave, pediment and ceiling rose ready to glue onto your living room wall.

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TIN PLINTH

Jenny Nordberg

Material: Tin

Dimensions: 50 x 50 x 50 cm

2016

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About: Jenny Nordberg created the Tin Plinth with the cubical geometry of the classical gallery plinth in mind. The material in the plinth however - tin, is maybe less classical. Often working with the tension between the hand made and the machine made Nordberg wanted the explore the production of a sheet material that could be used to create a plinth. To do this she used the limitations of a studio environment as her framework, and developed a method to make sheet metal by casting tin in large molds. The outcome is an uneven and rough, almost brutal expression. This is the first object within a coming series of several industrial processes adapted for studio production.

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ANYWAY PART OF IT

Kueng Caputo

Materials: Rubber Granulate

Dimensions: 190 x 90 x 25 cm

2016

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About: The point of view | approaching | taking distance | changing it as much as possible | to see more precise.

What is it | without a viewer? | is an object the same without an interaction? 

UNTITLED

Maria Lenskjold

Materials: Earthenware, stoneware

Dimensions: 23 x 35 x 48 cm

2016

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About: From top to bottom. Round and blue base, two hollow packages of red clay(terra-cotta), sculpture vase with blue curvaceous line. Black vase or pedestal, terra-cotta plate with crack, repairs using Japanese technique.

IT CAME THROUGH ME THROUGH YOU (NO SEPARATION)

Matt Olson/OOIEE

Materials: Aluminium, MDF

Dimensions: 69 x 203 x 284 cm

2016

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About: Everything is always changing all the time and thus a plinth is always in motion. Rather than focussing on what a plinth “is” in the moment and trying to define it, we’re more interested in how a plinth behaves over time. Then we see that a plinth seems to embrace humility, exists in a role of service to many different things from sculputres to architecture and sometimes becomes a photo that delivers a ghost. 

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UTILIZATION AND DENSITY

Pettersen & Hein

Materials: Concrete, pigment, black steel, PVC, dirt and earth

Dimensions: 80 x 55 x 45

2016

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About: Numerous unrealistic possibilities of the occupation of space appear in the utopian urban schemes of recent years. The technical feasibility of many of these proposals is unquestioned since prototypes such as...... already exist. Taking into account the mass needs in the next decades, however, our proposals are deliberately confined to those which we may expect greater economy from in comparison to present day procedures, by no means excluding those of today but, hopefully, improving on them. Thus, the urban system is simply a set of technical, production and organizational improvements on present conditions, with their various social implications. 

PRIMITIVE PROGRESSIVE PLINTH

Soft Baroque

Materials: Aluminum dancing shelf and air hardening clay

Dimensions: 40 x 44 x 115 cm

2016

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About: The primitive aesthetic has permeated into contemporary design language as a way of reconnecting ourselves to basic forms of craft in the modern environment. The dancing shelf, the donor skeleton, is the antithesis of this, a gimmick condensed out of the Chinese manufacturing industry, with little relation to the handcrafted. Primitive Progressive plinth is a dynamic display that re-animates and anthropomorphizes the idea of the standardized white cube plinth. The ambition of a plinth is to appreciate the beauty of an artwork, this is a hyper-real version of this function and arguable more high performance. Its twisting and shifting frame makes it mesmerizing and hypnotic.

2 PLINTH

Studio Vit

Materials: Matt lacquered blue black steel and gradient dark blue steel, individually marked by hand

Dimensions: 27.5 x 37.5 x 50 cm / 31 x 31 x 50 cm

2016

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About: 2 PLINTH are two objects which are based on archetypal form that has been altered. Classical proportion has been changed and so has material and color. As a result what used to be a generic white cylinder takes on new meaning. 2 PLINTH are objects in their own right but can also have a function, they can be used to sit on or things can be placed on top of them. Ultimately they are for others to explore and infuse meaning into.