World class product design institution CRÉMA has partnered with Cape Town gallery and interior curators The Fourth to deliver a mind bending showcase in the form of Project/ Death Row Dinner.
The unique Créma collections showcase the world’s best indoor and outdoor luxury furniture, feature lighting, hand-made rugs and continue to supply the very best in international design to high end projects including private homes, offices, restaurants and boutique hotels throughout South Africa.
This exhibition marks the partnership which the gallery space bridging art and design. The intention behind this hybrid is to create a space that is invariably commercial, whilst at the same time informative. Viewers will be in a position to understand more about design, its history and its inextricable relationship with art.
PROJECT // DEATH ROW DINNER
“We had the pleasure of exhibiting a selection of our products such as the Melt, Cut and Shade Pendants by Tom Dixon, Taccia Table Lamp by Flos, Cherner Armchair by Cherner, Cage Suspension Lamp by Diesel Foscarini and the Eiffel Side Table by HAY Design at The FOURTH’s most recent exhibition “Death Row Dinner”.”
There is nothing quite like the beckoning of the existential curtain call to elicit the deep-reaching excavation into our own experience for recall, review – and possibly regret. In the end, only we hold the necessary empirical evidence to conclude the outcome of our own lives; as all that we have engaged with throughout our lives eventually becomes memories that accumulate in our minds. Central to the assembling of such memories is that of people gathered together in search of satiation whether through food, drink or ritual.
It is this notion around ceremonious convening that forms the foundation of our show, Death Row Dinner, in which the intersection of past nostalgia and gathering intersect as an inquiry into how we reflect on our lives. Our gallery floor lends itself as a walk-through journey that offers anecdotal groupings of the participating artists, inviting the viewer to contemplate their human essentiality, and perhaps our collective ability to avoid or deny our own due date with time – ignorance is bliss, they say, even when it is counter-productive.
