Leonor Antunes presents her first solo exhibition, discrepancies with W.W. (in company), in Vienna at the University Gallery of the Angewandte. Antunes places her own artistic works in dialogue with pieces by designers from the Wiener Werkstätte and the former Imperial and Royal School of Arts and Crafts. Antunes’ use of glass beads, ropes, wood and steel resonates with the materials and craftsmanship of selected objects from the collections of Angewandte's Collection and Archive.

Leonor Antunes’ interest in the historical developments and key figures of 20th-century art, craft, design and architecture forms the conceptual framework for her artistic practice. At the same time, she sees her work as a tribute to designers who have often been overlooked or marginalised. This forms the backdrop to her in-depth research, which, however, does not remain confined to a historical and theoretical level, but involves close collaboration with professional craftspeople to develop new approaches and methods for working with specific materials in her artworks.

For discrepancies with W.W. (in company), Antunes has designed a visually multi-layered exhibition system that forms small display islands within the rooms. The basis for this is a chair designed by the French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999) following a working visit to Japan in the early 1940s. In doing so, Antunes also draws attention to the connection between Japanese craftsmanship and the Wiener Werkstätte, of which Felice Rix-Ueno, among others, was a member until 1930. Rix-Ueno worked in both Kyoto and Vienna.

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