Seattle based artist Evan Blackwell´s approach seems not entirely different from that of Edmond van der Bijl, who we featured yesterday:
I have consistently been making things with materials from my surroundings as a way to comprehend, as well as bring order and new meanings to the world I live in. (..) My goal is to reinvent much of my surroundings both philosophically and physically in order to experience a more fulfilling life. My methods for doing this is to collect, rearrange and repurpose the materials and spaces around me. Translating …

Danish artist´s Jens Haaning´s (*1965) work is not exactly much about Monobloc chairs, still it may tell one or two things about the object. Haaning has worked extensively on globalization related issues. For his work “Chair Exchange” (2004) he swapped all the chairs from the café terrace of Sydney´s Museum of Contemporary Art for those from the restaurant Phuong Thao on Do Son, Hai Phong in Vietnam. The Vietnamese got some ..

I just don´t get it. Israeli designer Tal Gur showed this (what? prototype, conceptual, esoteric, provocative?) chair/object/work recently and writes ..

Just noticed public Swiss TV SF1 has this older clip from 2007 now online. It´s a 4:01 minutes report on the (successful) attempts of several Swiss cities´ to ban the Monobloc plastic chair from their centers. Statements from city officials – and myself, shot in my Erfurt loft.