The
references to minimal sculpture that are conjured up through
the serial arrangement of design objects such as globe lamps,
chairs or the well-known Ikea Billy bookcase, are complemented
by the pragmatic dimension of the objects as functionalistic
items of everyday consumption. In this sphere of closeness
and familiarity with the everyday reality of the beholder,
Lasse Schmidt Hansen’s works act from the creative decision
between norm and deviation. This can, for example, be seen
in his work Billy 1/294.346.752 that lets the classic mistakes
made by millions of consumers in building Ikea furniture
be reconstructed. Lasse Schmidt Hansen has mathematically
calculated that there are over 294 million different possibilities
to build the bookcase, which consists of only 12 parts. Lasse
Schmidt Hansen has exhibited at Grazer Kunstverein and at
the KBH Kunsthal in Copenhagen this year.
-Phillipp Ziegler translated by Eva May
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