Pentagon (artist group)
Pentagon is an artist group founded in Cologne in 1985 . Gerd Arens, Wolfgang Laubersheimer, Detlef Meyer-Voggenreiter, Reinhard Müller and Ralph Sommer were among the 5 members. The five members designed mainly metal and furniture constructions that are now in production at the Laubersheimer company.
“One of the icons of the“ new design ”is the Braced Shelf by Wolfgang Laubersheimer. He is a founding member of the Cologne designer group Pentagon, which was founded in 1985 with its own gallery. The name of the group refers to the number of its members. In 1987 Pentagon was represented at the 8th documenta in Kassel and set up the highly acclaimed Café Casino. The shelf is no longer part of the Pentagon collection (the gallery had to be closed in 1990). Laubersheimer took over the production himself and enriched the collection of the design agency Nils Holger Moormann, Aschau. "
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1986 Living from the Senses Art Museum Düsseldorf
- 1987 documenta 8 , Kassel
- 1988 Design Today German Architecture Museum , Frankfurt am Main, Weeling Project Zeus Milan, Griff in den Staub , Cologne
- 2014 Shrill Bizarre Brute. The New German Design of the 80s Bröhan Museum , Berlin
- 2020 Design Group Pentagon . Museum of Applied Arts Cologne
literature
- Pentagon: Informal Design by Uta Brandes (author), Sabine Voggenreiter (author), Wolfgang Schepers (author), Michael Erlhoff (author), Taschen Verlag, (English, German, French) 1990 ISBN 978-3-82280-4-049
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bröhan Museum Schrill Bizarr Brachial. The New German Design of the 80s , accessed on February 7, 2016.
- ↑ Design Encyclopedia Pentagon , accessed December 26, 2016th
- ^ Vitra Design Museum Verspanntes Regal Laubersheimer , accessed on January 9, 2017.
- ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 303; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .