Ancient masterpieces provide the design cues for this series of furniture and accessories by New York-based artist Sebastian Errazuriz, which includes penis paperweights and statues that double as seats.
Chilean-born Errazuriz is showing his Functional Sculptures at David Gill Gallery in London. The collection also includes a console embellished with decorative frieze plates, candlesticks that resemble small headless statues and a bust of a Greek god with a light inside the face.
Statuette is a series of "mischievous" paperweights, each in the shape of a penis
The artist designed all of the pieces to look like artworks "stolen" from museums such as The British Museum, Le Louvre and the Vatican, and turned into objects for everyday use. Errazuriz makes the pieces by 3D scanning Greek and Roman statues from museums across the globe. The scans are then digitally manipulated, and re-cast into functional furniture using marble, Corian and marble composite.
The collection also includes a bust of a Greek god with a light inside the face
"I use technology to 'steal' classical sculptures I have revered since childhood, claim their shapes as raw material to build my own new works," said Errazuriz.
"It's an act of gluttony and lust to appropriate that which belongs to the sacred world of the arts and use it freely in an exploration of its boundaries within the realm of the functional and the mundane."
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