“Hopefully, the exhibition offers people an existential exhale,' says the museum's curator, Dakin Hart
Photo: Brian W. Ferry Most of the time, the Noguchi Museum’s sculpture garden and indoor-outdoor gallery stay the same aside from the changing seasons, but now there are a few temporary additions: chiseled opalescent-resin orbs that glow next to Isamu Noguchi’s pockmarked granite Practice Rocks in Placement, snaking tube lights that riff on the silhouette of his polished marble arches, and a ten-foot-tall inflatable sculpture that provides an airy contrast to Noguchi’s curved basalt monoliths.
Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis, the studio’s founders, have visited the Noguchi Museum a few times a year since their time as architecture students at Columbia. Even though the installations stay mostly the same, walking through the museum always imparted to them some sort of creative revelation or new way of seeing. “It’s a very, very spiritual space,” Petaloti says. Now their pieces are instigating a similar experience alongside Noguchi’s sculptures, furniture, and lighting.
From left: Objects of Common Interest formed a version of Noguchi’s Practice Stones out of opalescent resin. Photo: Brian W. FerryThe studio’s towering inflatable contrasts with the massive basalt sculptures around it. Photo: Brian W. Ferry From top: Objects of Common Interest formed a version of Noguchi’s Practice Stones out of opalescent resin. Photo: Brian W. FerryThe studio’s towering...
There is no confusing Objects of Common Interest’s work with Noguchi’s, but they have a shared sensibility for toying with how our minds perceive material, weight, texture, and balance. “We wanted to go as light as possible, as transparent as possible, as invisible as possible,” Petaloti says. It’s a sensibility that is especially heightened in the two “living rooms” that Objects of Common Interest and Hart curated.
From left: Objects of Common Interest’s lounge features Tube Chair, Tube Lights, resin tables, and inflatable floor lamps. Photo: Brian W. FerryThe Freeform Sofa anchors the Noguchi lounge, which is furnished with stone chairs and Akari light sculptures. Photo: Brian W. Ferry From top: Objects of Common Interest’s lounge features Tube Chair, Tube Lights, resin tables, and inflatable floor lamps. Photo: Brian W. FerryThe Fre...
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