Visit time: 10 - 20 minutes
Twenty photographs in large light boxes are the result of a commission given to the photography duo Blommers/Schumm. The starting point is their own interpretation of the work of Italian-Argentinian artist Lucio Fontana from the 1950s and 1960s. The photographs capture all the works by this important avant-garde artist in the collection of Design Museum Den Bosch. They also add a special dimension to these objects. The photo series is now also being included in the museum collection.
Blommers/Schumm work extensively in the world of fashion and the luxury industry, but they are fascinated by ordinary people and objects from our immediate surroundings. Precious jewellery is just as much a subject for them as a potato or a burnt-out cigarette. Through their photography, they make the extraordinary ordinary, and the ordinary extraordinary.
The art of Lucio Fontana captured in these photographs is simple in form and executed in smooth silver or loosely painted or scratched ceramics. Holes and cuts define the space in and around the object. In the photographs, the works lie on a carelessly scattered handful of sand, or seem to emerge from a torn piece of paper. Blommers/Schumm play with this apparent simplicity by adding another object to Fontana’s museum art, by showing the edge of a table, doubling the object in the image or flattening the perspective of spatial forms. The established avant-garde is thus enriched with a new, confrontational beauty.
