December
1-5, 2005
05
Degrees of Separation: a special group exhibition by Moss Gallery
at Design 05 Miami, with work by among others Maarten Baas,
Tord Boontje and Claudy Jongstra
In association
with Design05Miami, Moss Gallery will open a satellite location
in the heart of Miami's Design District during the five days
of the Art Basel Miami Beach art show. The large-scale multi-artist
installation, called 05 Degrees of Separation, will occupy the
entire ground floor of the Buick Building, located at 3841 NE
2nd Avenue. Art Basel Miami Beach, the sister event to Art Basel
in Switzerland, is the most important art show on the American
continent and a cultural and social highlight of the Americas.
Of course, Moss Gallery is also a cultural and social highlight
of the Americas, but in a different way.
Location:
3841 Ne 2nd Ave (map)
Miami, FL 33137
About
Maarten Baas
Where There’s
Smoke is a continuing narrative told through one-of-a-kind pieces
created by Dutch designer Maarten Baas for Moss, in which iconic
examples of innovative 20th century aesthetic movements (which
have been the strongest personal influences for this young graduate
of Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands) are burned, then
stabilized with an epoxy resin and a special lacquer. Wielding
a torch as one might a chisel, Baas re-sculpts these design
icons with flame, careful to preserve, as much as possible,
their structural integrity (and thereby their original functionality).
Their authorship and identity altered, they become revisionist,
highly personal, audacious expressions of Baas, all now related
through his personal experience and through the eloquence of
their metamorphosis.
In 05 Degrees
of Separation, Baas will continue his evolving series for Moss,
Where There's Smoke, launching fourteen one-off "burned"
iconic classics from Carlo Molino, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles
Rennie Mackintosh, Charles and Ray Eames, and Achille Castiglioni.
About
Tord Boontje
Born in
Enschede, the Netherlands, in 1968, Boontje studied industrial
design at the renowned Dutch design academy at Eindhoven, before
moving to London to enroll at the Royal College of Art. After
graduating in 1994, he opened his studio in south London where
he designed and produced limited-edition objects from recycled
and ready-made industrial materials. Having forged, early on,
fertile industrial partnerships with historic producers such
as Swarovski in Austria, Moroso in Italy, and Kvadrat in Denmark,
Boontje continues to realize a kind of industrialized fantasy
world, replete with fairy-tale-like shimmering boughs of crystal
copper-colored autumn leaves, pure gold vines overgrowing naked
Edison light bulbs, gigantic copper garlands falling lazily
over floral-patterened tables created with hand-hammered nails,
and delicate tea chairs upholstered with hand-torn lacey muslins.
In 05 Degrees
of Separation, Boontje will present one-off studio pieces, the
world launch of his new Autumn Blossom chandelier for Swarovski
and a 24k gold version of his popular Garland light for Artecnica.
About
Claudy Jongstra
Living and
working in rural Friesland, Jongstra is constantly exploring
methods of non-invasive farming techniques and researching new
methods for improving care of the flock and, hence, the quality
of their wool. Creating textiles which straddle high technology
and ancient handcraft, industrialized processes and alchemical,
labor-intensive techniques, Jongstra designed her own manually-operated
felting “machine” which mimics the different hand
movements traditionally used to make felt over the past six
millennium. The dyes she uses vary from natural vegetable dyes
to the most sophisticated French dyes, working from a repertoire
of over 500 formulas. She has collaborated with many fashion
designers, including John Galliano, Christian Lacroix, and Donna
Karan, a well as with noted architects and designers such as
Rem Koolhaas, Stephen Holl, Jasper Morrison, Hella Jongerius,
and Maarten Baas. Her work is in the permanent collections of
many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, the Victoria
& Albert Museum, London, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
In 05 Degrees
of Separation, Jongstra will present incredibly crafted natural
felt floor rugs.
Contact:
Franklin
Getchell, President
Moss
146 Greene Street
New York, NY 10012
Tel.: 212-204-7100
Fax: 212-204-7101
franklin@mossonline.com
www.mossonline.com
About
Design 05 Miami
The first
annual design.05 Miami will take place from December 1-5, 2005
in the historic Moore Building in the Miami Design District.
design.05 Miami is an independent enterprise organized in cooperation
with and endorsed by Art Basel that will coincide with Art Basel
Miami Beach 2005. It will do for design what Art Basel has done
for contemporary art, bringing together the best collectors,
connoisseurs, architects and designers from around the world
in one of the premier destinations for art and design.
design.05
Miami endeavors to encourage the current discourse over the
ever-blurring boundaries between art, architecture, and design
through a highly selective multi-disciplinary design event.
design.05 Miami will present fifteen of the world's most significant
galleries dealing in post-war to contemporary museum quality
furniture and decorative arts. As the inaugural recipient of
the design.05 Designer of the Year award, Pritzker Architecture
Prize winner Zaha Hadid will create a 4-story site-specific
installation in the central atrium of the building. Her installation
will be a visual example of her groundbreaking work, which constantly
pushes the boundaries between architecture and urban design.
Never before
has there been such a major design event staged simultaneously
with such an important art fair as Art Basel Miami Beach. This
intense concentration of art and design will stimulate both
collaborative relationships and dialogue making five of the
most culturally exciting days in the Americas. To further encourage
this, design.05 Miami will host a dynamic program of conversations
with curators, designers, and architects as well as a series
of special exhibitions throughout the Miami Design District.
Location:
The exhibition site is the historic Moore Building in the vibrant
Design District of Miami, Florida. Originally built in 1921
as a furniture warehouse, this unique building has four floors
of arcaded spaces around a soaring central atrium. Emphatically
vertical rather than spread out like a convention center, only
three to four of the curated collection of galleries are presented
on each floor. Considered Miami's creative hub, the Design District
is one of the leading centers in the U.S. for furniture showrooms,
design companies and art galleries.
Event
Information:
The Moore Building
Miami Design District
191 NE 40th Street
Miami, Florida 33137
Tel.: 305-572-0866
www.design05miami.com
December 1 - 5, 2005
Opening times:
Thursday,
December 1 - Opening night for invited guests
Friday, December 2
6 pm - 11 pm
Saturday, December 3
6 pm - 11 pm
Sunday, December 4
6 pm- 11 pm
Monday, December 5
10 am - 3 pm
