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To celebrate the first-year anniversary of uppercut, we are aiming to organize a show during Antwerp art weekend (17-19th of May).The group show will exclusively consist of chairs, 24 to be exact. The analogy behind this is a reference and symbol to all the hours in a day, for each hour of the day a chair.
Since then the ‘chair’ has increasingly involved and to display how far the chair has evolved I would like to introduce chairs that embody our spirit of the times, all done by European, or at least European based designers & artists.
The essence of the show is to capture the spirit and wave that has been flowing all over Europe regarding chair design. Some chairs will be presented for the first time to the public and some of them we chose for their cultural significance.
“In Europe, it was owing in great measure to the Renaissance that the chair ceased to be a mark of high office and became the customary companion of whoever could afford to buy it. Once the idea of privilege faded the chair speedily came into general use. We find almost at once began to reflect the fashions of the hour. No piece of furniture has ever been so close an index to sumptuary changes. It has varied in size, shape, and sturdiness with the fashion not only of women's dress but of men's also. Thus, the chair which was not, even with its arms purposely suppressed, too ample during the several reigns of some form or other of hoops and farthingale, became monstrous when these protuberances disappeared. Again, the costly laced coats of the dandy of the 18th and early 19th centuries were so threatened by the ordinary form of seat that a "conversation chair" was devised, which enabled the buck and the ruffler to sit with his face to the back, his valuable tails hanging unimpeded over the front. The early chair almost invariably had arms, and it was not until towards the close of the 16th century that the smaller form grew common.”
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Turnhoutsebaan 277, 2100 Antwerpen, België, Turnhoutsebaan 277, 2100 Antwerpen, België,Antwerp, Belgium
