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Assembly | Sigve Knutson

Assembly | Sigve Knutson

Polidefkous 39, Piraeus, at Carwan Gallery Athens | November 4th 2021 - January 9th 2022

Working intuitively with hands-on techniques and a wide range of materials, young Norwegian designer Sigve Knutson creates objects that question contemporary mass-produced design. After presenting the critically acclaimed solo project Drawn to Production with Carwan Gallery during Milan Design Week in 2017, Knutson presents a new solo show at the gallery with works created in the past five years — including new objects inspired by the local context of Piraeus and created specially for the exhibition. 

Entitled Assembly, the exhibition explores the freehand, improvisatory approach that is part of Knutson’s practice, which is often driven by the pure joy of putting things together without planning or designing anything in advance. Each object he creates is unique and results from a process led by experimentation and an intuitive use of tools, to create archetypal forms that, in the designer’s own words, display different “gradients of functionality”. Abstract wood columns thus coexist in his work with playfully stacked shelves, hand-moulded forms, cast-metal seats and geometric sculptures.

Assembly features a selection of works in wood, different kinds of metal and “wood mud”, a mixture of wood dust and glue that Knutson uses like clay to sculpt various objects with his hands. Imagined as a whimsical gathering of handcrafted objects, the exhibition focuses on Knutson’s understated sense of innovation and honesty, especially in the way he chooses to finish his pieces: visible markings from the tools used and the making process, in combination with minimal use of varnish or other coatings, allow the viewer/user to explore and experience the materiality of each object in a more direct way.

Conceived as exercises in pure making, Knutson’s objects are part of a personal, introspective kind of design-making. Through constant and playful experimentation, he explores what it means to be human through craft, and particularly what it means to be “a human making things in this day and age”.

Sigve Knutson, Assembly at Carwan Gallery Athens - © Giorgos Sfakianakis





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Sigve Knutson

Oslo, Norway

Sigve Knutson (b. 1991, Norway) is an experimental designer based in between Oslo and Eindhoven. He obtained an MA in Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven in 2016. His practice is motivated by a drawing mentality and a fascination for the intuitive and playful rather than the smoothened and planned. Through a series of methods and material combinations that allows for intuition and spontaneous actions, he aims to make his objects in the same free way as he would make a drawing.

Sigve Knutson explores materials and techniques that share the same qualities as his drawings. Hammering metal is a way to shape a flat sheet of any metal, he was interested in the act of using force to make something flat into a volume and using an outline as a mold to control the shape of the volume. Traces of the production become the surface of the objects as each piece is hand-hammered into its shape.

Scheibler Foundation Prize in Design, Fashion, Arts and Crafts (2023) .

Major Museum Exhibition
Recent exhibitions at Carwan Gallery (Athens, 2021),
Design Museum Gent (2020),
Sørlandets Kunstmuseum (Kristiansand, 2020), and
Gerhardsen Gerner (Oslo, 2022)

Email: info@carwangallery.com
Phone: +852 3008 5615
Website: Explore the collection on the Carwan Gallery Works page

EXHIBITED WORKS

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RIMOWA X SIGVE

RIMOWA X SIGVE

RIMOWA X SIGVE RIMOWA X SIGVE

By Sigve Knutson
SLAB N.1

SLAB N.1

SLAB N.1 SLAB N.1

By Sigve Knutson
WOOD CLAY CHAIR NO.2

WOOD CLAY CHAIR NO.2

WOOD CLAY CHAIR NO.2 WOOD CLAY CHAIR NO.2

By Sigve Knutson
SLAB #7 / TABLE STACKS

SLAB #7 / TABLE STACKS

SLAB #7 / TABLE STACKS SLAB #7 / TABLE STACKS

By Sigve Knutson
COLUMN SHELF N.3

COLUMN SHELF N.3

COLUMN SHELF N.3 COLUMN SHELF N.3

By Sigve Knutson
WOOD CHAIR

WOOD CHAIR

WOOD CHAIR WOOD CHAIR

By Sigve Knutson
LOST ALUMINUM FOIL CHAIR

LOST ALUMINUM FOIL CHAIR

LOST ALUMINUM FOIL CHAIR LOST ALUMINUM FOIL CHAIR

By Sigve Knutson
ALUMINUM NUGGET SHELF N.1

ALUMINUM NUGGET SHELF N.1

ALUMINUM NUGGET SHELF N.1 ALUMINUM NUGGET SHELF N.1

By Sigve Knutson
WOOD COLUMN N.1

WOOD COLUMN N.1

WOOD COLUMN N.1 WOOD COLUMN N.1

By Sigve Knutson
WOOD TRIPOD

WOOD TRIPOD

WOOD TRIPOD WOOD TRIPOD

By Sigve Knutson
CASTED ALUMINUM HANGER

CASTED ALUMINUM HANGER

CASTED ALUMINUM HANGER CASTED ALUMINUM HANGER

By Sigve Knutson
TRIPOD

TRIPOD

TRIPOD TRIPOD

By Sigve Knutson
TRUNK STOOL N.3

TRUNK STOOL N.3

TRUNK STOOL N.3 TRUNK STOOL N.3

By Sigve Knutson
RIVETS OBJECT N.1

RIVETS OBJECT N.1

RIVETS OBJECT N.1 RIVETS OBJECT N.1

By Sigve Knutson
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RIMOWA X SIGVE

RIMOWA X SIGVE

RIMOWA X SIGVE RIMOWA X SIGVE

By Sigve Knutson
SLAB N.1

SLAB N.1

SLAB N.1 SLAB N.1

By Sigve Knutson
Hammered Aluminum Lamp

Hammered Aluminum Lamp

Hammered Aluminum Lamp Hammered Aluminum Lamp

By Sigve Knutson
WOOD CLAY CHAIR NO.2

WOOD CLAY CHAIR NO.2

WOOD CLAY CHAIR NO.2 WOOD CLAY CHAIR NO.2

By Sigve Knutson
SLAB #7 / TABLE STACKS

SLAB #7 / TABLE STACKS

SLAB #7 / TABLE STACKS SLAB #7 / TABLE STACKS

By Sigve Knutson
ALUMINUM NUGGET SHELF N.1

ALUMINUM NUGGET SHELF N.1

ALUMINUM NUGGET SHELF N.1 ALUMINUM NUGGET SHELF N.1

By Sigve Knutson
COLUMN SHELF N.3

COLUMN SHELF N.3

COLUMN SHELF N.3 COLUMN SHELF N.3

By Sigve Knutson
WOOD CHAIR

WOOD CHAIR

WOOD CHAIR WOOD CHAIR

By Sigve Knutson
LOST ALUMINUM FOIL CHAIR

LOST ALUMINUM FOIL CHAIR

LOST ALUMINUM FOIL CHAIR LOST ALUMINUM FOIL CHAIR

By Sigve Knutson
Bench

Bench

Bench Bench

By Sigve Knutson
WOOD TRIPOD

WOOD TRIPOD

WOOD TRIPOD WOOD TRIPOD

By Sigve Knutson
WOOD COLUMN N.1

WOOD COLUMN N.1

WOOD COLUMN N.1 WOOD COLUMN N.1

By Sigve Knutson
CASTED ALUMINUM HANGER

CASTED ALUMINUM HANGER

CASTED ALUMINUM HANGER CASTED ALUMINUM HANGER

By Sigve Knutson
Ceramic Sculpture

Ceramic Sculpture

Ceramic Sculpture Ceramic Sculpture

By Sigve Knutson
TRIPOD

TRIPOD

TRIPOD TRIPOD

By Sigve Knutson
WOOD STOOL N.1

WOOD STOOL N.1

WOOD STOOL N.1 WOOD STOOL N.1

By Sigve Knutson
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