Marion Friedmann Gallery

Black Night concrete cabinet

BLACK NIGHT
cast concrete cabinet

by Stefan Buxbaum, 2023


SIZE: H: 121 x W: 68 x D: 43 cm // H: 47.64” x W: 26.77 x D: 16.93”
MATERIAL: cast concrete, steel feet, concrete shelves. Cast in a lightweight technique. Corpus cast in one piece.
Suitable for outdoors.
UNIQUE PIECE 


 

BLACK NIGHT is a cast concrete cabinet with black and dark grey pigment and plant relief imprints on its front. The plants were harvested in spring 2023 and conserved for eternity on the doors of the cabinet.

The piece is from a new collection of unique cast concrete cabinets and furniture by the artist Stefan Buxbaum that evoke a surprising sensation in contrast to the softness and sensibility of nature and plant specimens cast onto them.

The cupboards of Stefan Buxbaum - a casting and concrete expert - are technical feats: the corpus is cast in one piece, in a lightweight technique. For his emblematic plant models, the artist applies his chosen specimens and petrifies those paragons of beauty as permanent reliefs onto the surfaces.

We are reminded of the art deco era or Jugendstil, however, in new flesh, projected into the present and the future through the use of this contemporary material concrete. Suitable for outdoors.