Mathias Bengtsson — Growth Chaise Longue

LONG DESCRIPTION:

In the Growth Chaise Longue, Mathias Bengtsson investigates and designs how a natural form emerges and manifests in black bronze. In a bio-mimicry process, where digital seeds mimic natural growth, simulating the rules and methods of nature. Bengtsson has invented an innovative computer design technique that grows organic forms, inspired by vegetal and cellular growth patterns. By using artificial intelligence to give his artworks natural shapes, Bengtsson creates a fusion between the organic and the technological. Bengtsson is continuously operating on a fine line between design, technology, computer science and fine art with an explicit passion for crafts, materials, nature and technology combined. Altering both natural forms and code to match his vision.

DESIGNER BIO:

Mathias Bengtsson
Designer, born 1971

Mathias Bengtsson designs technically innovative furniture. Bengtsson explores the convergence of nature and computation, materials and digital processes, representing the most innovative field of design. Bengtsson has worked with technology and coding since the 1990’s, and is amongst the leading artists, architects and designers who work with advanced science and technologies. His work has evolved together with the rising of the internet and the ever-consuming presence of the WWW. An artist working experimental with design and technology but who still abides by the traditional craft processes of sketching by hand and modelling in clay. Bengtsson seeks to broaden our perception senses and to evoke a showdown with an idea of normality.

EDUCATION:

1999: Royal College of Art, London
1997: The Danish Design School (now the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – School of Design).

GRANTS AND HONOURS:

2012: The Finn Juhl Prize, Wilhelm Hansen Foundation
2005: Three-year working scholarship from the Danish Arts Foundation

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2018: Organic Tranformations, Design Museum Denmark, Copenhagen
2017: Growth, Galerie Maria Wettergren, Paris
2015: Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
2014: Traphold Museum, Kolding, Denmark
2011: MINDCRAFT11, Danish Crafts, Milan
2011: Industrial Revolution 2.0, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

Museum Pompidue, Paris, France
Cooper Hewitt, New York, USA
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Carnegie Museum of Art, USA
Montreal Museum of Art, Canada
Frank Cohan Collection, UK
Manchester Art Galleries, UK
The Lowery, UK
Cass Sculpture Foundation, UK
Stedelijk Museum, Holland
Trapholt, Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Röhsska Design Museum, Sweden

Website:

http://mathiasbengtsson.com

Instagram

@mathiasbengtssonstudio