French Exit: Concorde

Michaela Eichwald, Anna Franceschini, John Miller, Daniele Milvio, Emily Sundblad, Peter Wächtler, Bruno Zhu

“The collaborative practice of Concorde scorns the enduring iconicity of modernist product design, the clean lines and the functional, minimalist shapes; in opposition, their pieces embrace the cryptic and the technical, combining readymade parts and custom production with references that span from medieval craftsmanship to contemporary wellness. Fusing irony and exactness, playfulness and savagery, absurdism and practicality, the mixed-use artifacts presented for French Exit are tools for a new engagement.

For their first exhibition in Paris, Concorde have been invited to present their work and negotiate the context of a contemporary art gallery, vis à vis existing and newly commissioned works by Michaela Eichwald, Anna Franceschini, John Miller, Daniele Milvio, Emily Sundblad, Peter Wächtler and Bruno Zhu.”

—Stefano Cernuschi