PRESS RELEASE
4 Copenhagen exhibitions, late summer into fall 2005
| A State of Becoming “I thought I could organize freedom – how Scandinavian of me,” sang Björk on her Homogenic CD. More and more Scandinavian designers are rejecting their image as purveyors of intelligent planning, humanistic enlightenment and truth to materials. Instead they fearlessly pursue innovation and new ways of thinking which center on the physical, often drawing inspiration from the botanical or zooological sciences. One of these new iconoclasts is New York based architect-designer Ólafur Þórðarson, whose objects are forever in a state of ,,becoming” rather than being; they are ,,funky” in a way which most Americans would recognize, wry and ironic in the age-old manner of Icelanders, as well as impregnated with political awareness. And while doing what they are meant to do, they have too much presence to ever become bland consumer objects.
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