EXPLORING THE THIN LINE BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY ART AND DESIGN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE FORM DOESN’T CARE ABOUT THE FUNCTION ANYMORE? There is no context that can define a clear border between art and design. There are certainly many area’s of intersection. Methodology and techniques don’t establish limits of one or the other. More than the…

Alluding to a leaf, a raindrop, a seed, a willow or a mother with child, the piece titled La Renaissance by Max Jungblut represents both a culmination of the working process and philosophy of the artist, as well as a radical departure and new beginning. For the past ten years, the artistic process in which…

The work The Seedling presents another step in the development of Max Jungblut into an autonomous practice with figurative forms. This time represented by a seed, nature is not only used as a subject, but also plays a leading role in the design and work process, in which the artist aims to rework industrialised wood…