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Brecht Wright Gander
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Brecht Wright Gander (b. 1986) is an artist, designer, and writer whose studio is focused around issues of form, functionality, and use: he finds objects to be oppressed by the indifference of sentient beings, shunned into apparent voicelessness. His sculptures are machines bereft of purpose; his design enters into uncomfortable communality with its users. In them, he positions ideas of the observer versus the observed, with objects exploring their bodies, finding sentience, and realizing their own destinies.
About his work he says:
Objects speak in ways we can hear, or in ways that should make us try to hear: the eerie sense of the art-object looking out at the viewer, or looking away from the viewer, or being involuntarily subjected to the viewer. As you place your weight on a chair, it pushes against you with equal force. This force arranges your body, conforming it to the chair’s negative space. You, then, can be sat on in turn: chairs turn people into chairs. It’s an ontological exchange.
Gander has held exhibitions at Mendes Wood DM, Germantown, NY; Superhouse, New York, NY; Room57 Gallery, New York, NY; Bloko 748, Venice, IT; Objective Gallery; Shanghai, CN; Loy Gallery, Singapore; and, Emma Scully Gallery, New York, NY; his awards include an Untitled Art Fair Special Projects Commission and a New Designer of the Year Honoree at NYCxDESIGN. Gander has been written about in Document Journal, ArtNews, Art in America, Architectural Digest, Dezeen, Sight Unseen, Design Milk, Metal Magazine, Elle Decor, Galerie, Cultured, Surface, and Harper’s Bazaar. His writing has been published in BOMB, SPIKE, Material Journal, Design Edit Magazine, and PIN UP, and will be included in the forthcoming monograph on Daniel Widrig published by Hatje Cantz Press. The artist is based in the Hudson River Valley.
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Brecht Wright Gander (b. 1986) is an artist, designer, and writer whose studio is focused around issues of form, functionality, and use: he finds objects to be oppressed by the indifference of sentient beings, shunned into apparent voicelessness. His sculptures are machines bereft of purpose; his design enters into uncomfortable communality with its users. In them, he positions ideas of the observer versus the observed, with objects exploring their bodies, finding sentience, and realizing their own destinies.
About his work he says:
Objects speak in ways we can hear, or in ways that should make us try to hear: the eerie sense of the art-object looking out at the viewer, or looking away from the viewer, or being involuntarily subjected to the viewer. As you place your weight on a chair, it pushes against you with equal force. This force arranges your body, conforming it to the chair’s negative space. You, then, can be sat on in turn: chairs turn people into chairs. It’s an ontological exchange.
Gander has held exhibitions at Mendes Wood DM, Germantown, NY; Superhouse, New York, NY; Room57 Gallery, New York, NY; Bloko 748, Venice, IT; Objective Gallery; Shanghai, CN; Loy Gallery, Singapore; and, Emma Scully Gallery, New York, NY; his awards include an Untitled Art Fair Special Projects Commission and a New Designer of the Year Honoree at NYCxDESIGN. Gander has been written about in Document Journal, ArtNews, Art in America, Architectural Digest, Dezeen, Sight Unseen, Design Milk, Metal Magazine, Elle Decor, Galerie, Cultured, Surface, and Harper’s Bazaar. His writing has been published in BOMB, SPIKE, Material Journal, Design Edit Magazine, and PIN UP, and will be included in the forthcoming monograph on Daniel Widrig published by Hatje Cantz Press. The artist is based in the Hudson River Valley.