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Kiesler Exhibition: Endless Table
Kiesler Exhibition: Endless Table
35, Wooster Street, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
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Kiesler Exhibition: Endless Table
35, Wooster Street, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
Type
Cultural ›
YEAR
2008
A 145’ long (yet endless) table meanders
through The Drawing Center’s Gallery, displaying 70 of Frederick Kiesler’s
drawings and 1 notebook in a loop. The
walls of the gallery are left blank - for the first time in The Drawing
Center’s history. Visitors are guided along a curatorial itinerary divided into
four themes relevant to the avant garde architect’s work: Correalism,
Perception, Endless Architecture, and Exhibition Design. Along the way, they face each other from
varying distances across an inaccessible void in the center of the
gallery. Larger drawings are displayed
on tilted panels, generating surprise, and causing visitors to adjust their
viewpoints. Endless Table was fabricated
with powder coated CNC milled aluminum, acrylic, and mdf, and was assembled in
two days. The ‘V’ shaped aluminum table
legs are designed to both support the table and structurally join together its
21 reconfigurable modules
From The Drawing Center’s press release:
“This exhibition explores the pivotal role drawing played in the
interdisciplinary and multifaceted work of Austro-American designer, artist,
theoretician, and architect, Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965). Frederick Kiesler:
Co-Realities will trace Kiesler’s interest in the expressive and conceptual
possibilities of drawing through key projects and concepts from the 1930s to
the 1960s, from his early work as a scenic designer to his revolutionary
designs for Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of the Century Gallery, and his decades long
investigation into the unique structure of his Endless House. As so few of
Kiesler’s installations, sets, or projects remain or were ever realized, the
drawings have become key to understanding his significant contribution to 20th
century thought. Philip Johnson called Kiesler “the best-known non-building
architect of our time.”
through The Drawing Center’s Gallery, displaying 70 of Frederick Kiesler’s
drawings and 1 notebook in a loop. The
walls of the gallery are left blank - for the first time in The Drawing
Center’s history. Visitors are guided along a curatorial itinerary divided into
four themes relevant to the avant garde architect’s work: Correalism,
Perception, Endless Architecture, and Exhibition Design. Along the way, they face each other from
varying distances across an inaccessible void in the center of the
gallery. Larger drawings are displayed
on tilted panels, generating surprise, and causing visitors to adjust their
viewpoints. Endless Table was fabricated
with powder coated CNC milled aluminum, acrylic, and mdf, and was assembled in
two days. The ‘V’ shaped aluminum table
legs are designed to both support the table and structurally join together its
21 reconfigurable modules
From The Drawing Center’s press release:
“This exhibition explores the pivotal role drawing played in the
interdisciplinary and multifaceted work of Austro-American designer, artist,
theoretician, and architect, Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965). Frederick Kiesler:
Co-Realities will trace Kiesler’s interest in the expressive and conceptual
possibilities of drawing through key projects and concepts from the 1930s to
the 1960s, from his early work as a scenic designer to his revolutionary
designs for Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of the Century Gallery, and his decades long
investigation into the unique structure of his Endless House. As so few of
Kiesler’s installations, sets, or projects remain or were ever realized, the
drawings have become key to understanding his significant contribution to 20th
century thought. Philip Johnson called Kiesler “the best-known non-building
architect of our time.”
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