“Humans just have a need to create things and live with them and relate to them. That relationship can be with an object or a picture. We like that relationship. It doesn’t matter what the thing is.”
The Haas Brothers, twins Nikolai and Simon, spoke to us on the occasion of their first solo museum exhibition, ‘Ferngully,' opening at the Bass Museum in Miami. Their work effortlessly straddles the worlds of art and design, prizing collaboration with artisans, craftspeople and their respective environments to create objects that defy categorization.
Provenance
R & Company, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, R & Company, The Haas Brothers: Cool World, November 4, 2014 - January 10, 2015
Two works: (i) Accretion vase; (ii) Father Accretion vase
each stamped with the artists' name and date "THE HAAS BROTHERS 2014" on the underside glazed porcelain (i) 5 x 4 1/2 in. (12.7 x 11.4 cm.) (ii) 10 1/4 x 13 in. (26 x 33 cm.) Executed in 2014, these works are unique.