A team of 10 authors (among which 4 of us are now part of MADA) gathered to make the proposal for Serbian Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Biennale with the theme COMMON GROUND and won the national competition.
Solution that we offered was a table which with the surface of its plate almost entirely fills the pavilion.By denying or inverting the scale we wanted to bring the object to its extreme meaning i.e. the universal, indivisible, sculptural, banal. Its size translates it into a surface. Its height relates it to the notion of table. We occupied the interior of the pavilion with one designed gap.
The solution is sculptural as one of its dimensions is emphasized i.e. enlarged to a monumental size.. We wanted to emphasize a term -large empty area. The relationship between the table surface and the volume of the pavilion creates tension and defines its value. Perception is the theme that arises and that belongs to the atmosphere the most. Simple is associative and is subject to diversity in perception. Impossibility of perceiving the object as a whole and its transition to the surface is what makes it beautiful.
Large surface is pretty. Immense surface is beautiful.