Louisa Guinness Gallery - Garden Furniture



Rolf Sachs - Furniture, Lighting and Objects


This exhibition, 'Duality', marks a departure from Rolf Sachs' familiar signature of Deconstruction and Minimalism. He has embarked on an exploration into the emotional responses evoked by artefacts of his making.
Rather than simply relying on form to stir the viewers, he challenges and invites an experience of uneasiness with the Neon Light Immersion sculpture. A red neon condenser bulb is immersed in water and triggers an understandable reaction of danger.
	By using two everyday items, a wig (albeit handmade) and a glass bottle used by a chemist, Sachs has created the unnerving spookiness of the anthropomorphic Wig Lamp - Elisa, which unsettlingly suggests that the inanimate object is somehow possessed of a personality. Shrouded completely with a veil of human hair, it is the essence of feminine mystery.
The voyeur in us too is aroused to snatch a furtive look into the Peephole Light, where a scene reminiscent of Manet's Dejeuner sur L'herbe awaits us. Miniature naked figures go about their daily business oblivious to the Peeping Tom.
	Under Sachs' constant scrutiny is the convention of uses associated with artefacts - the St. Moritzer Schlitten bench, hatched from his childhood memories, is a classic sledge, rescaled and brought into the living room.
Likewise Z Stool Box is a humble fruit crate, beautifully re-crafted and again invited into the home as a stool, a table, a container, a multifunctional 'objet'... He welcomes the outside in and the inside out, and typically challenging our expectations, he positions the In Side Felt Deck, a tinkered with deck chair, right next to the fireplace.



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