"daily routines" breadedEscalope

breadedEscalope

Vienna

Daily Routines

January 20th - February 18th Elga Wimmer PCC

Index

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About “daily routines”

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Your Clock

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Bar Non-Lieu

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ZEN Rug

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Minus X Chair

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breadedEscalope

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Colophon

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Daily Routines

“daily routines” present a body of

dialog opens new perspectives and a

work addressing such themes as the

broader discourse.

perception of time, isolated conscious-

On the one hand, daily routines re-

ness, and the illusion of order, all of

present monotony, everyday life,

which depend on “social habitus.”

activities “frozen in time”; on the other,

The show focuses on the habitual, the

it evokes the comforts of familiarity,

normative, the average—things that we

competence, security and tradition. It

don’t give attention to, since they are

is in the ambivalence between these

achored in daily routine. Considered

two meanings that we can find the

self-evident, these behavioral patterns

ideal balance for a fulfilling life. This

and internalized values claim the status

exhibition suggests conceptual niches

of unquestioned reality. The objects

and possibilities “between the lines.”

and installations of breadedEscalope,

The artworks serve as a podium for

however, play contentiously with

interaction and exchange with the

notions of use, value and consump-

viewer.

tion. The works’ intense subject-object

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Your Clock, edition of 24 pieces, 2007 Salvaged Flipclock, Microcontroller, 3D printed gearbox, cord, you

Clocks largely determine our daily

and auditory. Household appliances

routine. Contrary to the usual chro-

usually save time, but Your Clock

nometers, however, Your Clock mostly

instead steals time from its user. It

stands still. It doesn’t impose a flow of

thereby creates an intense relationship,

time on the viewer. Instead it shows

demanding attention! Through restraint

a single moment on its dial — the

of information the user is able to “gain”

moment of a recent interaction with a

a certain quality of life. Your Clock is

human.The clockwork was modified

less about the dictatorial nature of time

in such a way that one has to pull

than about “time in between,” which

a chain to activate the dial mecha-

opens up another way of measuring

nism. The clock then “catches up”

duration. It allows users a meta-level,

on the time that has passed since

giving them the possibility to decide

it was last activated. It thus renders

about the passing of time!

otherwise timeless space both visual

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Bar Non Lieu, limited dition, 2015 Fir, Particle Board, Mirrors, Whiskey, Stove pipe, two stools, a candle

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In its dimensions, the Bar Non-Lieu

perfect setting for an intimate conver-

is indeed referring to conventional

sation. By closing both doors, you

bar furniture. Its central claim to be

can create a multifunctional space of

a non-place, however, is ultimately

retreat. From the outside, only the legs

obtained by the opportunity to enter

of the guests are visible. Gestures and

the furniture and thus be able to

words, however, remain secret. The

experience it as space. This shifted

interior design enhances the visitors’

perspective expands the viewer’s

voices acoustically and you can hear

perception of the piece to an atmo-

yourself clearly, while exterior noise is

spheric bar with room for two people.

shielded from the outside. The central

Thereby, the Bar non-Lieu clearly

bar-table provides with the ideal

focuses on interpersonal dialogue and

distance between the two dialogue

its plain and minimal design offers the

partners.

ZEN Rug, Installation, 2017 Framed velour fabric, hand blown glass zen-nozzle, Vacuum cleaner

In the installation Zen-Rug a merely functional component of a vacuum cleaner is translated into an aspect of a higher ritualistic order. By developing the absurd product of a glass vacuum cleaner nozzle —hand blown by artisans—breadedEscalope invents a new version of the classic device. In a performance, the artists, with the help of their specially designed vacuum cleaner nozzles, imprint a design on carpets that resembles a Zen garden.

Here the desire for order and symmetry — prevalent in Zen culture — meets individualism, self-discovery, spirituality and artistic development.

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Minus X for Elga Wimmer Gallery MDF

A chair is usually conceived as an

construction plan of the Minus X

efficient and practical means to have

Lounger, within the exhibit “nomadic

people sit comfortably, without

furniture 3.0 --Neues befreites

embellishments. Since 2011 the

Wohnen” (“nomadic furniture 3.0

simple lounge chair has been a piece

- new living without constraint”),

of furniture made by breaded -

published in the book by the same

Escalope for exhibitions as well as

name. A quote from the volumes

being displayed as equipment

illuminates the building esthetic of the

furniture. There are different versions

collaborative group -- “The result of

in various types of material, as was

a consequent reduction to the bare

seen in the exhibition at the Academy

essentials: four boards form a

of Fine Arts in Vienna, or at the

geometrical, basic structure without

Kunsthaus Baselland in Switzerland.

lacking functionality or coziness.”

In 2016 the group presented the

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photo: Anja Kaufmann

about breadedEscalope

Launched in London in 2007, the Vienna-based art and design collective breadedEscalope — Sascha Mikel, Martin Schnabl and Michael Tatschl — deals with spatial structures and subject-object relations.

Analyzing and questioning daily routine are constant factors in the group’s practice, and keeping everyday life in check is the point of departure for objects, installations and performances that bridge the applied and visual arts.

Works by breadedEscalope are in the collections of MAK, the Hofmobiliendepot (Imperial Furniture Collection) and the Vienna Museum, and they had received the Outstanding Artist Award for their project “love me bender” .

“Daily Routines” is their 1st solo show in the US.

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photo: Florian Topel

Publikations (selection)

Nomadic furniture 3.0 Neues befreites Wohnen? // Martina Fineder, Thomas Geisler, Sebastian Hackenschmidt Niggli Verlag (2016) ISBN: 978-3-7212-0935-8 Stadtarbeit – Ten Years of Design Featuring the City // Lilli Hollein, Tina Thiel // Umstaetter Publishing (2016) ISBN: 978-3-9504266-0-1 Telling Time // Chantal Prod’Hom and Fabienne Xavière Sturm mudac, 5 Continents Editions (2015) ISBN: 978-88-7439-720-4 Keil und Kübel - breadedEscalope Werkverzeichnis Schildgen, Mikel, Schnabl, Tatschl DESK, Wien (2014) ISBN 978-3-200-03763 Blitzkontakt - Kunst im Hochspannungslabor Katrin Nora Kober, Hans Kupelwieser Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz (2014) ISBN: 978-3-85125-309-2 Werkzeuge für die Design Revolution Harald Gruendl, Marco Kellhammer, Christina Nägele IDRV, Institute of Design Research Vienna (2012) ISBN: 978-3-9503352-2-4 O’clock - time design, design time Silvana Annicchiarico, Jan van Rossem Triennale Design Museum (2011) ISBN: 978-88-831-8872-5

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My green city Gestalten (2011) ISBN: 978-3-89955-334-5 You Do Design You Walking chair Metroverlag (2011) ISBN: 978-99300-056-1 2000-2010 - DESIGN IN WIEN Tulga Beyerle, Peter Stuiber Wien Museum Metroverlag (2010) ISBN 978-3-99300-018-9

Exhibitions (selection)

2016

2013

22.09. - 16.01. Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City - 10 Years of Vienna Design Week

21.11. - 24.11. Product Design Madrid 16.11. - 27.11. Ausstellungsbeteiligung Feriarte, Selection Rossanna Orlandi, IFEMA

30.09. - 09.10. Spazio Pulpo, Wien 27.09. - 13.10. fise gallery, Budapest, exhibition about Austrian Design

18.10. - 15.11. Ausstellungsbeteiligung 20 Jahre Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach

16.03. - 23.03. Graf & Schelble Art Gallery, Designing Lightness, selected by Li van Edelkoort for Rado Switzerland

28.09. - 06.10. Hofmobiliendepot, Wien 21.06. - 24.06. Erstpräsentation der boxing stories während der Sofia design week

2015 21.10. - 25.10. Austrian Design Explosion at Designblok Prag 25.09. - 26.10. Ganz Neue Galerie, Wien

04.05. - 02.06. Ausstellungsbeteiligung / Tools for the design revolution, IDRV in Graz 02.02. - 31.03. Neu / Vertraut - Überarbeitung von traditionellen Engadiner Stabellen, St. Moritz, Happen Projects

18.09. - 18.10. Designsalon Linz 2012 26.06. - 05.07. Austrian design explosion at Triennale Design Museum Mailand 27.05. - 27.09. Telling time at mudac Lausanne

28.09. - 04.11. my first bio raffinery, Ausstellungsbeteiligung / Tools for the design revolution,Wien

20.03. - 31.05. Nomadic Furniture 3.0, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich

20.09. - 23.09. Two Day chair Produktion, designerblock, London

2014

14.09. - 14-10. Introducing RePresent at Hoxton Hotel, Design Exquis, London

03.11. - 14.11. World Design Capital, Cape Town 2014 01.10. - 02.11. “Tomorrow is...” Jubiläumsausstellung MAK Wien 08.08. - 07.09. Collecting- Umgang mit Sammlungen, Kunsthaus Baselland

05.09. - 29.09. Ausstellungsbeteiligung, Designgalleriet, Stockholm 15.03. - 15.04. Tea Time at the gallery, Einzelausstellung, Stilwerk Design Gallery by Engelhorn & Turkiewicz in Wien

2011 17.11. - 24.12. Ausstellungsbeteiligung - “How long is now?” Lazy Dog Gallery, Hamburg 11.10. - 08.01. Ausstellungsbeteiligung - “o’clock - Time Design, Design Time” Triennale Museum Mailand 28.09. - 17.10. Ausstellungsbeteiligung good guys, good design, International Design Triennial, Peking 2010 15.10. - 23-10. Tenerife Design Festival 07.10. - 09.01. Ausstellungsbeteiligung, “2000-2010 Design in Wien”, Wien Museum 29.09. - 14.11. Ausstellungsbeteiligung “Design Criminals” by Sam Jacob, MAK Wien 14.04. - 19.04. Ausstellungsbeteiligung, Zona Bovisa, Salone del mobile Mailand 2009 01.10. - 11.10. Vienna Design Week Passionswege, Wien 11.05. - 11.08. Ausstellung im das Möbel, Wien

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