{"id":12072,"date":"2014-01-14T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=12072"},"modified":"2014-01-14T14:23:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:23:20","slug":"pae-whites-toy-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/pae-whites-toy-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Pae White&#039;s Toy Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12074\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1375395968849.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> AGAMNEMONICS (detail), 2013. Photo: Serge Hoeltschi. All images courtesy of the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin<\/p>\n<p>When granted access to the storage rooms of Vienna\u2019s Museum for Applied Arts, hometo period masterpieces from the Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte, Art Nouveau and Secessionist movements, artist Pae White opted for the sections housing the un-authored variety of objects, the kind that probably never leave storage for display. Focusing on items from the turn of the last century, White first created the show \u201cOthers\u201d last autumn, installed as an intervention into the permanent collection, and continued her investigation of anonymously crafted artefacts in a second show, \u201cOrllegro\u201d, which opened this autumn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Occupying the museum\u2019s upper floor, the show features a massive assemblage of renderings of one subject: a trove of painted wood toys from the 1920s. To celebrate these objects of ambiguous value, she reimagined nine pieces as figures in a chess set and sent pictures, but no instructions, to her worldwide network of collaborators asking for interpretation and fabrication. And so, set up meticulously in a long display case is the work entitled \u201cAgamnemonics\u201c (2013), made up of a myriad beautiful, strange forms that repeat and recall each other as they appear in a variety of sizes, materials and styles. Fabricators in China, Ethiopia, Mexico, Lithuania, and Germany, and a group of Los Angeles-based artists, are just some of the interpreters whose signatures shape this landscape of cross-pollinating pieces. Her displaying the items as chess sets and not as \u201cobjets\u201d, however, posits them again on the border between art and design which White so aptly blurs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrllegro\u201d, the show\u2019s title, is also the title of the second artwork on view. It\u2019s taken from a fictitious coinage invented by the textile industry in the 1950s to denote material that was a faux version of something real; indeed, polyester never sounded so good. The coinage reveals the era\u2019s different attitude towards synthetics \u2013 with a familiar ring, yet of no recognisable etymology, the word was meant to activate a false nostalgia while at the same time\u00a0promise a stylish, more sophisticated future. White\u2019s piece of the same title is a monumental glimmering tapestry woven entirely from metallic thread. Giving permanence to ephemera, the pattern shows broken URL links, digital debris, or entire sections from White\u2019s own library. Bee motifs run across the pattern too. (Elsewhere around the museum, dusty Gobelins depict historical events).<\/p>\n<p>Installed at slanted angles, both the expansive tapestry and the chess sets just about fit into the rather small exhibition space, leaving the viewer little space to navigate around. This decision seems to further highlight the confounding effect White\u2019s work is often characterised by, of using humble means to create grandeur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pae White, ORLLEGRO. MAK permanent collection contemporary art, Vienna. Until October 12 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Taken from Sleek 40&#8243; Man\/Boy&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mak.at\/aktuell\" target=\"_blank\">www.mak.at<\/p>\n\n<p><\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGAMNEMONICS (detail), 2013. Photo: Serge Hoeltschi. 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