Shibari Stool
ColAAb x Morgane Tschiember
Shibari stool (stool), 2022
Solid oak of Bourgogne, linen rope.
H 13,8 x W 11 x D 11 in (can be made to order).
Numbered, signed and limited edition: 8 pieces + 4 A.P.
Morgane Tschiember's work is multifaceted: paintings, sculptures, installations, photos, performances, working all materials (concrete, wood, ceramics, rope, metal, expanding foam, sand, glass, …) and experimenting with correspondences and “relationships of force between materials”. Then in her series, she always let's appear the construction elements, the stages of transformation, the seams, "the manufacture’s system of the parts”.
Benches and stools: Shibari
For her sculptures, Morgane Tschiember sometimes hangs elements on ropes in reference to Japanese Shibari discovered during her stay at the Kujoyama Villa in Kyoto. In Japan, Shibari is an age-old art, that of tying. An art and technique coming from samurais, resumed in certain sexual practices, but also in the gardeners’ art who shape trees by tying them up. She created for ColAAb, in a minimalist spirit, between art and design, benches and stools (Shibari bench et Shibari stool) inspired by the teaching of those Japanese gardeners. The beams - solid oak squares and rectangles - polished and oiled, are enclosed by linen rope skillfully tied; the wood, slashed on the surface “almost closes in on the rope”. As always for the artists, it is about “achieving great simplicity in the shape without hiding the way things are done, how they stay together, to show how materials work together”.
Photos: © Aurélien Mole - Texts by Pascale Le Thorel
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