Carpenters Workshop Gallery

Every convention – whether it concerns artistic legacy, beauty or plain purpose – needs to be challenged. And every creation is an exploration of the senses. From early on in his career Aldo Bakker (NL, 1971) has produced works in which his exquisite use of shape, material and colour is balanced with an almost disturbing tenacity in the way these pitchers, bowls, spoons, stools and tables defy everyday perceptions about the relationship between man and object. Or more precisely: the relationship between object and man. Because despite their tranquil appearance and the modesty of their monochrome skins, Bakker’s objects are anything but submissive.

First displayed at FIAC 2019, the Pompidou Bed was conceived as a platform, a stage from which seven performers, hand-selected by artist and designer Rick Owens, could project themselves into the legendary works of art surrounding them in the Pompidou Centre, Paris. Seven beds were positioned throughout the 5th floor of the museum, for each of Owens’ ‘beauties’ to recline on and absorb themselves into. The Pompidou Beds were augmented and brought to life by the performances, and played a vital supporting role to the ferocious and joyous acts happening upon them.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery, with spaces in London, New York, Paris, and San Francisco, transcends the classical borders of art and design, offering a precise symbiosis at the intersection of these two universes. Carpenters Workshop Gallery produces and exhibits functional sculpture by both established and international rising artists and designers who work outside traditional territories of expression. The gallery is actively involved in the research and production of limited-edition works found at the foreground of a process guided by emotional, artistic, and historical relevance.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery, with spaces in London, New York, Paris, and San Francisco, transcends the classical borders of art and design, offering a precise symbiosis at the intersection of these two universes. Carpenters Workshop Gallery produces and exhibits functional sculpture by both established and international rising artists and designers who work outside traditional territories of expression. The gallery is actively involved in the research and production of limited-edition works found at the foreground of a process guided by emotional, artistic, and historical relevance.