Originally created for the Groninger Museum Collection, the “Funtastico” exhibition presents product, furniture and interior design pieces including the iconic Green Chicken.
Jaime Hayon: Funtastico
The Design Museum Holon presents the last 10 years of work by Jaime Hayon, showing his fantastic worlds that may be portrayed as baroque, eclectic or surrealistic.
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- 26 November 2015
- Holon
This work was created for the Shanghai show “Contrasts and Contradictions: Chapter 1” (2006) raising the design vs. art dispute of creativity being limited by functionality. The Tournament – a colossal chess set handcrafted and handpainted by Hayon – is another prominent exhibit: inspired by the Battle of Trafalgar, the piece was built for the Design Festival London in 2009.
As a donation to the Museum’s permanent collection, Hayon has designed a large scale, unique wall hanging mirror.
“I see masks as a storyteller, or a mirror if you will, of history. Every civilization, from the ancient peoples of the Middle East to the Aztecs in the Americas, has utilized masks, and each mask tells a story. I became keen to create a mask representing characters from my own cosmos, one which combines fantasy, a certain playfulness, together with craft and quality. I decided to use mirror together with stone to create different textures and feelings, as if the mask were an old mosaic. Some parts have stone, while other parts show a reflection onto ourselves.
Together, the two characters create an imaginary composition. They become mysterious objects, masks that tell a story from my own fantasy civilization.” Jaime Hayon explains.
The Mirror is constructed of Caesarstone marquetry, who has donated the piece to Design Museum Holon.
28 November 2015 – 30 April 2016
Jaime Hayon
Funtastico
curated by Mark Wilson and Sue-an van der Zijpp
organised by the Groninger Museum
Design Museum Holon
Pinkhas Eilon St 8, Holon