Çalışmalarını İsveç’te sürdüren İskoç asıllı tasarımcı David Taylor’ın İstanbul’daki ilk kişisel sergisi 19 Mart – 25 Nisan 2015 tarihleri arasında SODA’da.
Kullandığı farklı malzeme ve tekniklerle sanatçı eserlerinde statülere, markalara ve tüketime takıntılı dünyamıza göndermeler yapıyor.
İsveç’in önde gelen tasarım okulu ” Konstfack”ta metal tasarımı üzerine yüksek lisansını tamamlayan David Taylor’a göre ”Gümüş üzerinde çalışmak erdemli bir gelenek ancak bu durum aynı zamanda birçok muhafazakar beklentiyi doğuruyor…” Ayrıcalıklı bir şey nasıl görülür ve nasıl üretilir konularını irdeleyerek bu beklentilerle mücade eden Taylor’ın, hediyelik eşyaların duygusallığını ve pop kültürünün değersiz yıkıntılarını biraraya getirdiği tasarımları hem ciddi hem de gülünç bir çizgi taşımakta.
Kamusal alanlara yaptığı büyük ebatlı çalışmaları ile de uluslararası bir üne sahip olan sanatçının çok geniş bir yelpazenin içinde yer alan tasarımları önemli müze ve özel koleksiyonlarda yer almakta.
Sanatçının atölyesinden çıkan en son eserlerin yer aldığı ”Taking Shape” adlı sergi SODA’da 25 Nisan 2015’e kadar görülebilir.
SODA is pleased to announce ‘’Taking Shape’’, the first solo show of internationally renowned designer David Taylor to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, between March 19- April 25, 2015.
In his exhibition at SODA, David Taylor presents a body of work that has evolved through making. At the core of crafts lies risk, which can be tempered by skill and channelled by experience, but only completely eliminated by not making. “Taking Shape” is a tightly knit community of new pieces in a landscape augmented by materials and techniques that represent the continually evolving pallet that Taylor exploits to make his work.This latest edition from his workshop is made with a clarity of intention and a conviction in execution, that leaves not doubt the author not only knows where he’s headed, but also how to get there.
“Beauty needs corruption. Silversmith and designer David Taylor allows his work to be defiled by surprising and unholy fancy. In a world obsessed with status, branding and expense, he develops his ingenious guerrilla-art between exquisite silversmithing, junk aesthetics and elegance. To work in silver is to choose a proud tradition but with that follows conservative expectations. Taylor challenges these expectations; what does exclusive look like, what it can portray? His silver is both serious and amusing, grafted with the souvenirs sentimentality, with pop cultures worthless debris and it disseminates what is important today: reflection, humour and need for something different. Taylor works quickly and intuitively, the desire for movement is strong. “My thoughts always seem to lie a step ahead what I am trying to do.” His industrial design is strikingly concrete. Ideas are drawn to their focal point where expression and function reach a toy-like clarity. While David Taylor’s journey of discovery goes on his work continues to tell us about ourselves, about our weaknesses and about our dreams in these days of mass-consumption.”
Peter Eklund
Scottish born David Taylor graduated from Konstfack, Sweden’s leading design school, with a masters degree in 1999. Combining his silversmithing skills with an irreverent approach and a broad material pallet has propelled is work onto the international scene. From public space art to cutlery design, singulars, multiples and mass production David has a skill and he likes to use it. He works in a grey area, somewhere in the vicinity of art and very close to design which he chooses to call contemporary craft.
