STELLA GEPPERT | Objects

Home2, 1999
Sofa, plastic, lacquer

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“Home1” is an oversized table, hollowly constructed of chipboard and covered with wood-grain wallpaper, underneath which a mattress and six stools are fastened. The gold and turquoise colored, flower-patterned mattress is drawn into a voluminous form by six red seat cushions on the underside of the table. In opposition to function, however, the cushions have wedged themselves in below their own legs. The work “Home2” reveals a similarly introverted and functionally bereft relationship. On a brown-checkered sofa with extended legs squat interlocking, oversized drawn-in knobs.

Objects Home1 Home2 Rudi		Home1, 1999, Wallpaper on timber, mattress, fabric, stool, foam material, artificial leather, 230 cm x 170 cm x 200 cm
Objects Home1 Home2 Rudi		1 “Home1” and “Home2” are part of the “Home” series created during my Meisterschüler year (master class year). In that work phase I was concerned with the moods of living spaces as created through the surface qualities of materials; the forms of the pieces of furniture; and familiar bodily association with them. I worked with found objects (stools, mattresses, sofas, etc.) or forms such as those created by casting human body parts. I combined these with typical domestic materials.
	Home2, 1999 Sofa, plastic, lacquer 2 “Home1” is an oversized table, hollowly constructed of chipboard and covered with wood-grain wallpaper, underneath which a mattress and six stools are fastened. The gold and turquoise colored, flower-patterned mattress is drawn into a voluminous form by six red seat cushions on the underside of the table. In opposition to function, however, the cushions have wedged themselves in below their own legs. The work “Home2” reveals a similarly introverted and functionally bereft relationship. On a brown-checkered sofa with extended legs squat interlocking, oversized drawn-in knobs.
		Rudi, 1999 Founding of the body in plaster, wallpaper 25 cm x 35 cm x 55 cm 3 The object “Rudi” builds upon casts of shoulder sections that, joined and then doubled, blend into a hermetic form. Wood-pattern wallpaper covers its surface.