CHADWICK RANTANEN

"Chadwick is concerned with the problems of design, or how design is problematic, or how he can create a problem out of design. I am not always sure which one is which. He is probably not sure either, which is why he keeps on making new works. Though, the work on my mind right now is an older one, “Rack Line”. It dates back to 2014. Aluminum poles loosely assembled, with vinyls of various colours adhered, and pieces of tape with instructions and numbers scribbled on top of them; the work somehow appears as a sketch preparing its own making. It makes sure to keep whatever is the problem of design still a problem. Unfinished and unresolved. Rantanen is not only mapping out concept, concerns and conditions for the work itself, but mapping out what other versions of the work could exist."

Excerpt from "1-20" by Eivind Furnesvik, 2020

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