As the holidays are upon us and we slowly delve deeper into winter's chill up here in the Northeast (very slowly in fact) exciting, artsy things are about to go underway in a warmer, sunshiny Miami, Florida. The first week in December a flurry of art fairs and exhibits run rampant in Miami's Design District creating some artsy, fartsy holiday excitement.
One installation that has caught our interest due to its adulation for Charles and Ray Eames' Powers of 10 film, the famous exploration of scale in powers of 10, is Arik Levy's "in power 10" for the brand new Miami location of the Molteni&C Dada Store. A series of 10 interpretations of the Quake table, one of his first designs for Molteni&C.
Each of the 10 expressions of Quake are further explored in powers of ten as they are lit by ten light bulbs, painted ten colors, numbered ten, weighted by ten times, wrapped with 100 meters of electrical cord, cut into ten pieces, covered with 100,000 staples, struck with 10,000 nails, supported with ten sticks, and pierced by 100 arrows. "I wanted to use and work with the multiplier of ten and use the table as a raw material to work with and transform into something else. Do to it what I never dared doing," Levy explains of the installation.
Well, as we've mentioned before, we will lend an eye to anything Eames related, inspired or created.
Seems like a good addition to what could potentially be a Florida-style packed series of exhibits and pieces during the first week of December in the design district of Miami. Not that that's a bad thing, but you know.
Below from top to bottom: the "10 Colors" and "10 Sticks" pieces from Arik Levy's "in power 10" installation.
See all ten pieces at the Molteni&C Dada Store located at 3841 NE 2nd Avenue, 103, tel. (786) 363-9111
www.moltenidada.com this Thursday December 2nd, 6pm at the "in power 10" exhibit.
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