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30/9/2005

Ways of living

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Jorge Pardo
Marjetica Potrc
Tobias Rehberger
Andrea Zittel

This exhibition of large scale sculptural work will present new work by Jorge Pardo (Cuba) and Marjetica Potrc (Slovenia), alongside seminal earlier works by Tobias Rehberger (Germany) and Andrea Zittel (US), which have never been shown before in the UK. In Ways of Living, these artists use the domestic context as a lens to explore the relationships between art and life.

Their hybrid art crosses over into architecture, graphic design, glassblowing, interior design, and dressmaking. Pardo's lamps, furniture, boats and houses and Zittel's practical and beautiful 'designs for living' are frequently linked with the phenomenon of Å’design-art'. Potrc's work highlights contemporary vernacular architecture and the aesthetics of shantytowns. The practices of all three dovetail with Rehberger's conceptual, often collaborative installations, in the way they throw up questions about art's role in contemporary culture.

Kettle's Yard was described as 'a way of life' by its founder Jim Ede, who wanted to create a haven of harmony and tranquility. This exhibition draws out the contrasts and resonances between Ede's vision and the cultural context in which it arose, and the experience and practice of art today.

Jim Ede described Kettle's Yard as 'a way of life'. He created a house as a work of art in itself, where works of art, furniture, other objects and the effects of light are arranged in such a way as to transform daily life into a continuous, complete aesthetic experience. The exhibition, Ways of Living, will resonate with and against Ede's vision of an aesthetic life. It will also revisit, through the work of four artists the propositions posed by the house and collection at Kettle’s Yard, in terms of the nature, display and experience of artistic practice.

Tobias Rehberger, Marjetica Potrc, Jorge Pardo and Andrea Zittel are all artists whose practices move freely across the disciplines of art, architecture and design. They use the domestic environment as a lens to reflect upon the ways in which public and private spaces intermingle today, and show how the patterns and pressures of lifestyles and visual culture constantly redefine the intersections of art and everyday life. Ways of Living will include major installation works by each artist.

Tobias Rehberger examines our relationship to objects through processes that include appropriation, parody and translation; for "Lying Around Lazy, Not Even Moving for TV, Sweets, Coke and Vaseline" (1999), the artist invited friends to propose their vision of an ideal "relaxing" environment, then realised their plans in his more fashionable version.

Marjetica Potrc will reconstruct a model from her Barefoot College project and show a suite of new drawings based on the hybrid built environments of postwar Belgrade. Her investigation and re-presentation in a gallery setting of temporary architectures and shantytown infrastructures from around the world celebrate human inventiveness and question western aesthetic canons.

Jorge Pardo, whose lights, furniture, sculptural objects, wall paintings and complete interiors test the boundary between artistic practice and design, will present an installation of new lamps and wall-based works.

Andrea Zittel's self-contained "Living Units", which make visible the highly fetishistic lifestyle of the global nomad, will be exhibited in the UK for the first time.

The exhibition is supported by the Henry Moore Foundation.

A catalogue, including newly commissioned essays by Alyson Baker, Alex Coles, Andrea Phillips and Raimar Stange, will be published to accompany this exhibition.

Image: Marjetica Potrc - Barefoot College: A House, 2002

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
Gallery open: Tues-Sun 11.30-17.00
House open (permanent collection): Tues-Sun 13.30-16.30

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