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Stuart Haygarth at Galerie Haunch of Venisonpublished : January 13 2010
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Former photographic illustrator, now designer, Stuart Haygarth is known for his astounding light designs composed of discarded objects from everyday life.
Like Dada, Stuart Haygarth appropriates ordinary, banal objects and affect them with a new function that award them with a new value, another sense.
Taking the form of Chandelier, installations or sculptural objects, his work emerge out of the collection, sorting and combination of large amount of plastic bottles, pair of glasses, crystal or glass objects...
Beyond recycling, Stuart Haygarth's process is more about investigating our social behaviour and habits, gathering bits and parts of found memories, fragments of others people's lives. He creates wonder out of disaffected objects and put forward their hidden beauty.
For his first exhibition at the acclaimed London Art Gallery Haunch of Venison, he created a new serie of works with smashed car wing mirrors collected from narrow roads and 'hot spots' in London : a revolving mirror-ball with 350 smashed wing mirrors attached to a mirrored sphere, and a series of wing-mirror shaped tables complete with smashed glass surfaces.
The show gathers as well a new serie of chandeliers made of tinted lenses, optical glasses and glasses frames.
Here again he plays with the duality of the objects and materials he choose, which are always very appealing to the eye, glittering, attractive in the distance ; rough, simple in close up and sometimes charged with more violent memories, like in the case of those shattered mirrors based furniture.
Audrey Mascina ©modemonline
© Stuart Haygarth, Courtesy Gallery Haunch of Venison, London