Settling in properly at its Ladbroke Corridor location, Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents ‘Suspended Disbelief’ the newest showcase on the late pioneering sculptor and designer Wendell Citadel (1932 – 2018).
The Kansas born designer experimented with industrial design, sculpture and woodwork earlier than discovering his trademark in uniting sculptural design with performance, which gave him his typically credited title because the ‘founding father of the American Artwork furnishings motion’.
Wendell Citadel at Ladbroke Corridor
Suspended Disbelief, exhibition view, images by Benjamin Baccarani, courtesy of Carpenters Workshop Gallery
(Picture credit score: Images by Benjamin Baccarani, courtesy of Carpenters Workshop Gallery )
The retrospective focuses on Citadel’s later woodwork from 2011 to 2015, with sculptural furnishings designs impressed by natural kinds and the pure world, signalling a return to his signature biomorphic type from the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies.
Having reinvented the artistic use of fibreglass and woodwork by merging them collectively, Citadel revisited his strategy of carving into stacked laminated wooden, whereas additional experimenting with metal, bronze and nickel, to create the natural shapes the work options.
The lamination ensured the structural integrity, whereas the comfortable angels, curvature, and textural indentations are harking back to dwelling organisms, permitting for a positive steadiness between delicate sculptural work and practicality.
Suspended Disbelief, exhibition view, images by Benjamin Baccarani, courtesy of Carpenters Workshop Gallery (2)
(Picture credit score: Images by Benjamin Baccarani, courtesy of Carpenters Workshop Gallery)
The exhibition highlights Citadel’s pure method to sculpture, including fluidity and motion to the considerably static nature of modernism. The supplies he selected complement his design strategies. Carving into giant glued wood blocks, his creations come alive taking up serpentine and tentacle-like kinds, injecting playfulness into his work.
(Picture credit score: Images by Benjamin Baccarani, courtesy of Carpenters Workshop Gallery (5))
Carpenters Workshop Gallery co-founder, Loic Le Gaillard, says ‘Wendell Citadel’s legacy is a testomony to the ability of visionary design. His work crosses over within the worlds of sculpture, design and craft, providing countless inspiration to new generations of artists and designers. His mastery of supplies, reworking them into fluid, useful artwork, continues to problem and develop our understanding of creation and craftsmanship.’
‘Suspended Disbelief’ is on show at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Ladbroke Corridor till 26 April 2024
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