This book is the first important monograph dedicated to the work of Pablo Reinoso (b. 1955), a leading French-Argentinian artist and designer known for his Spaghetti Benches--found all over the world--and his variations of the iconic Thonet chair. Over more than 40 years, Reinoso has produced his works in series. Here, in more than 200 superb color illustrations, are Reinoso's best-known masterpieces as well as more recent works that have been on view around the world. In his most recent series, Scribbling Benches (started in 2009), Reinoso no longer takes an anonymous bench, nor an iconic chair, as his point of departure, but instead a steel girder. These works play on the unexpectedness of a solid, heavy object, a key structural component in architecture, that is made to twist like a piece of wire and turn into a bench suggesting airy, transparent, contemplative spaces. The book explores Reinoso's worlds and his uses of different materials, which constantly translate the permanent into a work in progress.
Biografie (Michel Serres)
Michel Serres, geboren 1930 in Agen, ist ein französischer Mathematiker und Philosoph. Er absolvierte die École navale, um eine Laufbahn als Marineoffizier zu beginnen. Ab 1952 besuchte er die École normale supérieure, an der er 1955 seine Agrégation in Philosophie erhielt. Im folgenden Jahr trat er erneut in die Marine ein und fuhr jahrelang zur See. Serres ist seit 1969 Professor für Wissenschaftsgeschichte an der Sorbonne und wurde 1984 parallel zum Professor an der Stanford University ernannt. Seit 1990 ist er außerdem einer der vierzig "Unsterblichen" der Académie française. 2012 erhielt Serres den "Meister-Eckhart-Preis" der Identity Foundation und der Universität zu Köln.
