The works featured in Escape into The Upper Air are a series of intensely hued Hanging Tables and horizontal fibreglass tables, a number
of geometric Cloud Lamps and a collective of glass sculptures—new additions to the Imaginary Architectures
series. Like much of their previous work, El Ultimo Grito's creative process re-positions and re-appropriates the
everyday elevating low-tech materials into objects of desire.
EUG imbue their work with a vast range of influences; from philosophy, sociology, art, popular culture,
designed products to food and science. Viewing design as a vehicle, a way to make complex ideas tangible,
El Ultimo Grito inject abstract concepts into design products with the aim to
create new objects that are typologically autonomous from the learnt conventions of the past and thus offer
alternative ways to live, work and communicate.
El Ultimo Grito's tables are created to work on multiple axes. The Hanging Table is a monolithic form
vertically, re-assembled horizontally it returns to conventional form. The table structures use cardboard as
the base construction material to form non-geometric, organic-like furniture and are heavily coated (as if dipped)
in fibreglass. Their resin finish creates an immediate contradiction between the throw away, biodegradable
cardboard interiors, and their durable high-finish outer shell. These works instill the presence of both
sculpture and functionality, and are set in motion with a variety of corporeal attitudes and tactile responses.
They are made to be responded to, both physically and psychologically, posing questions about our social
experience to objects.
El Ultimo Grito at Spring Projects
Escape into The Upper Air is the title of the exhibition of newly commissioned works by the Spanish design duo.
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- 08 September 2011
- London
The polished surfaces of the Fibreglass Tables act as the foundation for an elegant sprawl of delicatelyformed
glass objects that create an urban vista. Cinema, Airport, Love Hotel, House and Station. These
Imaginary Architectures are propositions for the social, material and spiritual elements of cities.
The glass 'buildings' are connected by 'glass bridges' inspired by Venice. These architectures are 'structures
of anything', 'imaginary vehicles' familiar enough to be understood yet allowing us to probe, question and
speculate upon the relevance and meaning of these spaces in our lives.
9 September to 18 October 2011
Escape into The Upper Air
Spring Projects
10 Spring Place, Spring House, London
El Ultimo Grito (EUG) comprises London-based Spanish designers Rosario Hurtado and Roberto Feo. Founded in
1997, EUG are self-proclaimed 'post-disciplinarians', whose work aims to question and research the nature
of human relationships with objects and culture. They work across disciplines using a wide variety of media
from installations, objects, interiors, to graphics.