Omaggio 3
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.De Stijl’s optimistic belief that art, architecture, and design could fundamentally improve the built environment and, by extension, the way we live resonated with Sottsass, drawing him toward the avant-garde movement’s aesthetic language. Rather than simply transpose its elementary rectilinear, planar forms and palette of primary colors, Sottsass reinterprets De Stijl for contemporary times. In the series of nine cabinets he designed in homage to Mondrian, Sottsass extrapolates the master’s compositions into an arrangement of rectangular Lego-like volumes, an architectural massing rendered in a CMYK palette of synthetic Day-Glo magenta pink, chroma green, acid yellow, and key black. The function is open-ended, offering the user several facades of drawers and cabinetry to organize and contain all the chaotic ephemera of daily life.
Artwork Details
- Title: Omaggio 3
- Artist: Ettore Sottsass (Italian (born Austria), Innsbruck 1917–2007 Milan)
- Date: 2007
- Medium: Corian and wood
- Dimensions: 75 × 64 1/4 × 59 1/4 in. (190.5 × 163.2 × 150.5 cm)
- Classification: Furniture
- Credit Line: Courtesy of Gallery Mourmans
- Rights and Reproduction: Studio Ettore Sottsass Srl
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art