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Alright, enough wankin’ it — back to the show: Dunce Cap popped by MOMA the other day for the Ron Arad exhibition up in the penthouse. Billed by the museum as “the first major retrospective of Arad’s design work in the United States,” No Discipline revolved around the artist’s Cage sans Frontières, a gargantuan flowing mass of steel, reminiscent of Jeff Koons’ sculptural oeuvre, that housed most of the show’s other works (see below). Stacked on the interior and exterior walls of the Cage were an amalgam of pieces aptly representing the Israeli/British designer’s wildly diverse career: A fruit bowl propped alongside a design for Notify Jeans’ upcoming Milan showroom; a curvaceous chair next to a moving model of a rotating restaurant set atop an Alpen pinnacle (video here). Check out this neat Chris Ware-esque diagram for a pictorial overview.
Befitting Arad’s head-first embrace of new disciplines, the artist also incorporated an injection of our modern morphine (LOL!), inviting visitors to shoot text messages to his Swarovski-commissioned Lolita chandelier. More than 1,000 white LEDS transmitted the messages, which wound down the crystal-encrusted chandelier’s cylindrical ribbon, creating the illusion that the structure was spinning.
If you haven’t made it to the show yet, well, you’re SOL — it closed a week ago. As a dissimilar substitute, peep Stux Gallery’s On Love? On War?: Prominent Contemporary Chinese Artists, which features lots of T&A of varying appeal. The show closes in Chelsea on November 14th.
