Victor Miklos Andersen — Carcass Chair
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
The Carcass Chair by Victor Miklos Andersen presents the culmination of investigations into how the merging of digital and physical processes can combine within contemporary craft. Developed in close collaboration with Italian designer Antonio Davanzo, the pair alternate between traditional sculpting techniques – evident through a sand-cast aluminium skeletal framework, alongside developments into 3D building techniques. Crafted within a digitally augmented work space, the chairs back and arms combine a fluid structure in 3D printed plastic with foam and rubber inserts. The final 3D printed form is then finished in a high-gloss car paint providing a gradient of colour. Closely resembling the classic form of Hans J Wegners Ox Chair, Andersen’s Carcass Chair highlights the contemporary methodologies and processes utilised throughout its creation.
Material and dimensions:
Aluminium, Plastic, Foam, Rubber, Paint.
100 x 100 x 120cm
Year:
2024
PHOTOGRAPHY BY:
Benjamin Lund
LONG DESCRIPTION:
As with all of Victor Miklos Andersen’s projects, the Carcass Chair began within a greater conceptually framework. Examining classic Danish mid-century icons such as the Ox chair, Swan chair and Ant chair alongside others, Andersen noted the tendency of mid-century design to domesticate nature through form – removing unpredictability and wildness, in much the same way agriculture has tamed the Danish countryside in which Andersen was raised. Andersen’s Carcass Chair on the other hand speaks of our contemporary society in which domesticated nature merges with a new sense of the unpredictable – in this case the digital aspects of society. This is evident through the combination of production processes within the final outcome. The chairs frame is constructed through traditional production methods, crafted from hand-cut and glued foam components cast in aluminium. In stark contrast, the chairs seat back and arms were formed through the use of animation software – allowing Andersen and collaborator Antonio Davanzo to quickly re- shape iterations of this digital form through augmented construction techniques. The resulting 3D printed components have been finished in a combination of high-end Lamborghini car paints, with the high-cost paints utilised as a critique around the perceived value of 3D printed objects within contemporary craft.
DESIGNER BIO:
Victor Miklos Andersen.
Designer & Artist, born 1992.
Working from a mixture of production, education and exhibition spaces on the islands of Venice, the work of Victor Miklos Andersen is unapologetically eclectic. A freedom to explore materials, processes and technology is combined with a rigorous and thorough conceptual background within each of his projects; Andersen takes advantage of each project in order grow and push his physical skill set and conceptual understanding of the world we live in. His outcomes mix cultural and societal influences with both traditional and contemporary manufacturing techniques. United, these ingredients allow his body of work to express what design and craft is today, and can be into the future – extending from digital platforms to physical performance pieces and objects that sit somewhere in between. Alongside individual projects, Andersen works in close collaboration with Antonio Davanzo through their combined studio Blok 748, having previously collaborated with Leo Orta as a part of the duo OrtaMiklos.
EDUCATION:
2025: MFA, Sculpture, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
2020: BA, Fine Art, Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
EXHIBITIONS:
2024: Solo Exhibition, Laguna Antropica, Lo-Studio, Venice Art Biennial, Venice, Italy.
2023: Solo Exhibition, Bloko, Tableau, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2022: Solo Exhibition, Morning Glory, Etage Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2022: Solo Exhibition, Relations, Friedman Benda, New York, USA.
2022: Solo Exhibition, City-Body-Flower, Unique Design Group X, Paris Art Week, Paris, France.
2020: Solo Exhibition, 6 Acts of Confinement, Friedman Benda, New York, USA.
2019: Solo Exhibition with Leo Orta, OrtaMiklos, The Study Room, Collectible, Brussels, Belgium.
2018: Solo Exhibition, Creatures, Carlsberg, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2017: Performance Piece with Leo Orta, OrtaMiklos, Material Mitigation, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
2016: Performance Piece with Leo Orta, OrtaMiklos, Uni-Form, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
2016: Performance Piece, Sexual Dinner, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
COLLECTIONS:
2019: OrtaMiklos, Chaise Bel Animal – Electric Chair, Centre Pompodou, Paris, France.
2019: OrtaMiklos, Opisthoteuthis, Centre Pompodou, Paris, France.
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