Artsy correspondent and independent writer and curator, Kara Smith writes of our booth at FOG Design + Art Fair :
‘Lauren Kalman’s series “But if the Crime is Beautiful… Composition with Ornament and Object” pulled me into Sienna Patti Contemporary immediately. At first blush the pieces parallel—in form and color—the golden lamps and ornamentation accompanying beautiful wood furniture filling many of the booths at FOG. Looking closer, the golden form in Kalman’s composition is a human body; the corporeal is rendered like a precious object, abstracted through pose and positioning. Kalman offers an elegant and striking critical perspective on the cultural and psychological relationship design has played in shaping society by creating beautiful objects herself. Across the booth is Lucy Sarneel’s Daily Offer #6, Necklace (2013), a necklace hung on the wall like a painting with a white frame around it. A wooden-looking tray, a dull steel basin-like form, and an abstruse formation of tiny tile-like squares “dangle” from their rope-like cord. This necklace seems more symbolic than high-fashion, though I can picture it on a runway. The domesticity and bulk of its charms creates a tension with notions of elegance and delicateness so often associated with jewelry. Oh, the layers of symbolism! I didn’t enter the fair expecting to be surprised, but this booth shifted my expectations and presented work that is still piquing my intellectual curiosity.’
images of the booth at FOG Design +Art
