"From This Day Forward" by JAMESPLUMB
during Milan Design Week 2010 at Zona K
curated by Diana Marrone

FROM THIS DAY FORWARD, according to Diana Marrone, “is a true collection of uniquely reworked furniture – mostly one-offs, but also multiples and limited editions. Their works include lighting, decorative objects, and sculptures that are more functional and less fictional than those found in the visual art world. All are distinguished by the love JAMESPLUMB have for even the smallest forgotten relic - they create on the border between storytelling and set design, psychoanalysis and philology of the object. Art and design for JAMESPLUMB is to keenly and critically re-use what is already present (in form, tools and materials) - to give new life, and sometimes new function, to objects. In exploring the unwanted, I see JAMESPLUMB creating a hint of retro-punk aesthetics with a unique touch, versatile for new nomadic lives.”

FROM THIS DAY FORWARD will be set up in and around a campaign style tent designed by JAMESPLUMB and placed in the brand new modern space Zona K, a suspended and ethereal place that acts as dialectical frame for their poetics. JAMESPLUMB will live, sleep, and work in the environment they create, inviting the audience to view their latest processes and projects.

JAMESPLUMB: “We relish chance encounters with the overlooked and discarded, and the opportunity to celebrate and reveal the stories which might have gone untold. We simply love unearthing objects with a personal history, that show the marks and traces of time - often marrying two objects together to create entirely new characters yet always grounded in their origins.”

FROM THIS DAY FORWARD reveals a strong personality in JAMESPLUMB works. By creatively exploiting fetishisms, the duo let objects speak in a way that takes account of the value of materials, the efforts to consume less and the need to be more responsible.

Each day of the exhibition JAMESPLUMB invite the public to eat and drink with them in their travelling home, hosting tea and cakes from 5 pm to 7 pm at Zona K.

JAMESPLUMB is Hannah Plumb (1981) and James Russell (1980), a couple in life and work – who met in 1998 at Wimbledon School of Art studying Fine Art Sculpture. Their combined name of JAMESPLUMB represents the single artistic voice that builds on their different but complementary approaches.

Dates

Press Preview: Tuesday April 13th 2010, h. 11.00 – 14.00

Exhibition Preview: Tuesday April 13th 2010, h. 18.30 – 20.00

Show is open from Wednesday14th to Sunday18th April, h. 11.00 – 20.00.

Tea & Cake served every day from 17.00 to 19.00

images courtesy of JAMESPLUMB (archive 2009)