Etage Projects at Lovaas Projects
FOS · Minjae Kim · Freddy Tuppen · Tomoya Matsuzaki · Soft Baroque
Lovaas Projects, Munich · Various Others Supporting Programme
Etage Projects is pleased to present a group exhibition at Lovaas Projects on the occasion of Various Others. Bringing together five artists working across sculpture, light, and the applied object, the presentation gathers practices that share a common preoccupation: the object as a site of thought, where material decisions carry the weight of meaning and where utility and sculpture are held in productive tension.
FOS contributes a constellation of works that move between architecture, furniture, and atmosphere. Petite Street Lamp and the Den Frie Wall Lamp extend the artist’s long-running investigation into light as a social medium – luminaires conceived less as illumination than as quiet civic gestures. The Diamond Table and the Mountain Vases anchor this vocabulary in mass and silhouette, drawing on the artist’s particular grammar of cast and carved form.
Minjae Kim presents the Crusader Table, the Bionic Chair, and the Wrong Chair — works in which the language of historical furniture is approached as raw material. Kim’s pieces hold their references lightly, allowing the gesture of the hand, the seam, and the joint to remain visible. The results are propositions about how an object might inherit a tradition without obeying it.
Soft Baroque shows the Soft Metal Table and the Soft Metal Light, characteristic of the studio’s interest in surface, perception, and the slippage between what an object appears to be and what it materially is. Both works exemplify the duo’s continued inquiry into the visual rhetoric of contemporary materials.
Freddy Tuppen presents a body of new lamps developed for the occasion. Working across floor, wall, and pendant formats, Tuppen treats light as a structural element – sculptures that happen to illuminate, rather than fixtures that have been made beautiful.
Tomoya Matsuzaki contributes a series of pastels on found paper. Intimate in scale and deliberate in mark, the works offer a counterpoint to the room’s three-dimensional weight – a register of attention rather than statement.
Together, the works frame the exhibition as a meeting of object practices that refuse easy classification, presented in dialogue with the spatial sensibility of Lovaas Projects.
Go to artist page: FOS, Freddy Tuppen, Minjae Kim, Tomoya Matsuzaki, Soft Baroque
