| Lokal Lieshout, 2010 For the light-flooded space of the former Café Zwey into the second upper story of the K20 Museum in Düsseldorf, AVL has provided a total interior design: kitchen furnishings, a bar that projects far into the room, tables, chairs, lamps, a bookcase, even tableware. All surfaces have received a colored application, with choice of color being determined by “guided” chance procedures. The design responds to the modernist art found on display in the adjacent galleries of the Kunstsammlung , opposing to it a world of “primitiv/moderne” (to cite the work’s title), consisting of massive forms, seemingly hewn from stone. Lokal Lieshout is occupied with space filling works, multifunctional units, and complex installations which reside in the field of tension lying between contemporary art, design, and architecture. |
