Morris/Fruit, Rodchenko/Triple Peaks
2006
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2006
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Morris/Fruit, Rodchenko/Triple Peaks is a 2006 by David Mabb, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
David Mabb made a print in 2006 using Morris fabrics as the background. The flowers you see are bold and colorful against that patterned cloth. He took Morris’s designs and mixed them with images by another Socialist artist. It’s a quiet argument between two people who liked the same politics but ended up making very different art. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
The artwork combines a reproduction of William Morris’s "Fruit" wallpaper with digitally printed images of beer bottles based on Alexander Rodchenko’s textile designs, mounted on canvas. It juxtaposes Morris’s handcrafted, floral patterns with Rodchenko’s Constructivist, machine-oriented motifs to explore differing Socialist approaches to design and labor. The piece merges the two artists’ aesthetics by layering modern Morris wallpaper with Rodchenko’s geometric, utilitarian patterns.
Read the full account in the museum source.
David Mabb has a habit of crashing art history parties uninvited. He rips apart old paintings and wallpapers by hand, then slaps in bits from Soviet propaganda posters and Morris & Co. textiles. The result looks like a…
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