Errazuriz: Explosion

Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) has acquired Explosion, a new mind-bending cabinet by Sebastian Errazuriz, which embodies the designer’s mischievous sensibilities.

Errazuriz: Explosion
The cabinet Explosion will be one of the centerpieces of “Sebastian Errazuriz: Look Again” the exhibition which opens September 6, at the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA).
Inactivated, Explosion sits as a tidy, beautiful credenza. Transparent glass sidewalls provide a glimpse inside this intriguing but staid box. Further exploration of the central vertical seam reveals an entirely different object: with a gentle push, the rails slide further and further open until it seems that the cabinet has exploded beyond the bounds of stability.
Errazuriz: Explosion
Sebastian Errazuriz, Explosion
Even as Explosion’s exterior expands outward, it retains beautiful geometric proportions, using mechanics so complex that they took more than a year to perfect, despite borrowing one of cabinetmaking’s oldest tricks, the sliding dovetail. This new work will join a selection of important objects representing the breadth of Errazuriz’s practice in “Sebastian Errazuriz: Look Again”, his first solo museum exhibition.

from September 6, 2014 until January 12, 2015
Sebastian Errazuriz: Look Again
Carnegie Museum of Art
Forum Gallery + Hall of Architecture
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

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