WRINKLE SCULPTURE – KNITTERPLANET - small sofa / settee /armchair

This is the new sculptural seating project by celebrated Italian/Austrian artist ESTHER STOCKER, the 'Wrinkle-sculpture' or 'Knitterskulptur'. This model is made of polyester, fibre glass-reinforced. There are also models available in upholstered fabric, executed by Viennese boutique furniture manufacturer KOHLMAIER MANUFAKTUR. "Knitterplanet" or "Wrinkle Planet" is a sculpture that can be used to sit in. The user can create a whole landscape of settees. A folded polyester structure turns the topography into a surreal object. The artist calls into question the assumed rigidity of a system while challenging the perception of the viewer. The KNITTER sculptures seek to fold and distort the ordered space in a way that breaks with strict geometry.

Sizes can be made bespoke and reach from 50 x50 x 50 cm to extended sit-on furniture landscapes of the size of 400 x 200 x 90-120cm. Every single unit is made as a unique copy and numbered and signed by the artist.

ESTHER STOCKER is well known for her optically complex spectrum of geometrized sign and grid systems. These systems are kept exclusively in black-grey-white. She deliberately subverts our perception and disorientates our senses so as to release the viewer from what he/she knows of physics and accept a new sensory experience.
The works by Esther Stocker are pure abstractions, extracted from minimalist media such as the horizontal, the vertical, and the diagonal of space.

Esther Stocker (born 1974, South Tyrol, Italy) studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and at the Art Centre College of Design in Pasadena, California. Since the end of the 1990ies, her works have been widely exhibited in international solo and group shows.