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BNAG
Blumenzahn
It is appropriate that the artist duo Oliver-Selim Boualam and Lukas Marstaller are represented at Object & Thing by Functional Art Gallery – for it is precisely at the junction of those two terms that they operate. Based in Marrakesh and Karlsruhe, they present themselves as a “Super Design + Art Service,” offering gently provocative disruptions to the forms of daily life. The trio of objects included here, Blumennase, Blumenfuss, and Blumenzahn, are exactly what their titles proclaim them to be: a nose, foot, and tooth that can hold flowers. BNAG’s deadpan delivery connects their work both to historic Funk ceramics, and to German artists like Franz Erhard Walther and Franz West, who have similarly focused on the unstable zone where the body meets a sculptural situation.
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Artist
BNAG
Material
Terracotta, transparent glaze
Contributing Gallery
Functional Art Gallery
Date
2019
Dimensions
12 in × 9 in × 9 in
30.48 cm × 22.86 cm × 22.86 cm
ID
functionalbnag05-ind01 d
Image credit: Courtesy Functional Art Gallery, Berlin
Blumenzahn, 2019
12 in × 9 in × 9 in
Terracotta, transparent glaze
Functional Art Gallery
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It is appropriate that the artist duo Oliver-Selim Boualam and Lukas Marstaller are represented at Object & Thing by Functional Art Gallery – for it is precisely at the junction of those two terms that they operate. Based in Marrakesh and Karlsruhe, they present themselves as a “Super Design + Art Service,” offering gently provocative disruptions to the forms of daily life. The trio of objects included here, Blumennase, Blumenfuss, and Blumenzahn, are exactly what their titles proclaim them to be: a nose, foot, and tooth that can hold flowers. BNAG’s deadpan delivery connects their work both to historic Funk ceramics, and to German artists like Franz Erhard Walther and Franz West, who have similarly focused on the unstable zone where the body meets a sculptural situation.