Wild Animals

Demisch Danant presents a selection of works created by designers working outside the trends and traditions of society. The designers and the work itself embodies a separation from moral and social sense, exhibiting an unharnessed approach to creating artwork. Each in their own way, and at different levels of their careers, created symbolic works that crossed between provocation and decoration. What was perceived as wildness was actually an attempt to introduce poetry and fantasy into furniture design.

Much of the work exhibited was created in the 1980s by designers like Ron Arad, Tom Dixon, and Pentagon, who at that time sought to liberate themselves from the constraints of functionality and commercial logic by developing their own design vocabulary which often included using 'poor' materials and industrial techniques. Also presented are works by Maria Pergay and Pierre Paulin, who also developed their own modern language but within a more classical spirit than their younger counterparts.

The 'wild' are emblematic figures of post modernity because they are totally pure, free and violent, and incapable of compromise.

The exhibition will also include artworks by George Baselitz, Nan Goldin, Mike Kelley and Martin Kippenberger from the same period.