Etage Projects

Diet Wood Light by Soft Baroque 92h x 38w x 29d cm Most wood furniture today is made from veneered chipboard, it conveys its value with its outer surface. These pieces work backwards from that layer, starting with veneer and applying fibreglass and resin as a structure, capturing the ripples in the wood formed when drying. These panels are bolted together with segments of an aluminium bar bent into a spiral, a corporate worm cut into pieces. Currently on view at @thema Photo: @r.damisch

Etage Projects is pleased to announce the representation of Danish artist Ditte Gantriis. Ditte Gantriis is an artist that often works across a range of media in order to create immersive installations. On many occasions Gantriis appropriates widely used symbols and signs, even cliches if you will, to question and repurpose their meaning. Appreciation for artisanry of varying materials grants her work with sleek shapes and is present characteristic of her practice. Over the past years Gantriis’ practise has revolved around creating objects that she would want to live with. Objects created from soothing neccessity perhaps. The artist wishes to offer an intimate relationship with her works in much the same way as she herself has with them. Ditte Gantriis (born 1980) is a Danish artist living and working in Copenhagen. She has completed her Master’s degree at the Royal Danish Academy. Gantriis has participated in exhibitions in Europe, the Baltics, Asia and the United States, of which the most recent exhibitions includes “Café Livmoder” Go extreme (Kunsthal Aarhus DK), “Woomb Room” (Art Sonje Center KR) “Open Marriage” at KIM? Contemporary Art Center in Riga. Gantriis has worked as Associate Professor at the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts Sculpture Department and is represented in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Denmark. We are pleased to show works by Ditte Gantriis at @thema in Paris next week and a solo exhibition in Copenhagen in 2024.

Performance Anxiety by Soft Baroque features an indoor fountain incorporating a vintage Mies van der Rohe Chair. Through their practice, Soft Baroque focuses on creating work with conflicting functions and imagery, without abandoning beauty or consumer logic, blurring the boundaries between acceptable furniture typologies and conceptual representative objects. The refined and simplified forms of their works reflect principles of mid-century design, while at the same time veering towards conceptual territory by evoking the malleability of how objects are seen and mediated today. Processed materials manufactured for the domestic interiors are manipulated to unconventional ends. @soft_baroque

Toothpick Stool, Mirror & Stand By Soft Baroque 〰️ Performance Anxiety The traditional and tapered mortice and tenon have been rebranded many times. We continue this evolution, converging to a sharp a point, becoming a piece of domestic hostile design. It represents parts of modernism that have been fetishised to loose a connection with the human body. - Soft Baroque

Diet Wood Console & Shelf by Soft Baroque 〰️ Performance Anxiety Most wood furniture today is made from veneered chipboard, it conveys its value with its outer surface. These pieces work backwards from that layer, starting with veneer and applying fibreglass and resin as a structure, capturing the ripples in the wood formed when drying. These panels are bolted together with segments of an aluminium bar bent into a spiral, a corporate worm cut into pieces. - Soft Baroque

Opening today @nikolajkunsthal Uffe Isolotto & Soft Baroque Sekaleht: A Small Bridge with Two Ways, 2021 Sekaleht is a research project about the Lakes in Copenhagen, partly based on local historical sources and partly on abstraction, which manifests both digital and analogue works. The series of artworks act as concept sketches or teasers for what could become a coherent, immersive world in an immersive medium, such as computer games. Each artwork in the project is anchored in a geographical position in and along the Lakes, from which events and thoughts will merge and unfold, as a proposal for a new reading of time and lived life. Sekaleht: A Small Bridge with Two Ways is based on the painter Christen Købke's process of painting the picture "View of Sortedamssøen from Dosseringen seen towards Nørrebro" from 1838. The work is executed as a sketch, with Købke's notes on color and light engraved in the aluminum profiles. Photo credit: David Stjernholm

LEAKING FOUNTAIN by FOS in Tivoli Ph @jan_sondergaard

Performance Anxiety Seal Vase by @soft_baroque (Single & Double), 2023

Performance Anxiety Power Carved Chair, Side Table & Hook by @soft_baroque The title `Performance Anxiety´ refers to how objects are expected to be hi-performance. They put on a performance through their surface and we are expected to perform with our stuff for one another. These definitions are mushing our perception of our modern needs and creating strange criteria for functional items. Soft Baroque plays with this mechanism by making pieces with distortions and exaggeration, typical construction details or applications of hi-performance materials to traditional shapes. Ph @r.damisch

Performance Anxiety 〰️ Toothpick Chair & Stool in tinted oak by @soft_baroque Ph @r.damisch

On view at @chart_artfair Singing Keys by FOS 🗝️🎶

Showing 2 new works by Korean artist Minjae Kim at @chart_artfair , the Angel and Devil Vases made of quilted fibreglass resin. With his unique signature fibreglass production he created to large floor vases by hand. The results are at once poetic, imperfect, simple with an inherent personality. Ph @r.damisch