IKEA inspired exhibit in Columbus
Artist Jason Salavon takes inspiration for show from furniture company Ikea
COLUMBUS, Ohio — As a consumer, Jason Salavon has had the experience of putting together the sleek, affordable furniture of popular retailer Ikea. As an artist, he decided he’d rather break the Scandinavian company down.
Salavon created a collection of works inspired by the global home furnishings chain, whose typically mammoth blue and gold stores offer everything from build-it-yourself sofas to plates of Swedish meatballs.
The influence isn’t always obvious. One of the centrepieces of Salavon’s exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art is a soft-bound booklet with nothing more than blocks of colours arranged in different patterns on each of its 374 pages.
It’s the artist’s version of the Ikea store catalogue, after a computer reduced each page of “Ektorp” model couches, “Svind” entertainment centres and other products to arrays of average colours. Large prints of some of the individual pages hang on the walls of the gallery.
“I’m interested in taking the known and abstracting it into some sort of new space,” said Salavon, 37.
“Currents: Jason Salavon” runs through May 4 in Columbus. The exhibit is scheduled at the Inman Gallery in Houston from May 30 through July 5. Duplicates of some of the pieces were displayed this weekend at the Art Chicago 2008 contemporary art expo.
More info: Columbus Museum of Art Exhibits Webpage
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