7 Must-See Collectible Design Shows in November
By Jesse Dorris
From a major retrospective honoring the late steel savant Maria Pergay to a husband and wife duo’s first solo exhibition at London’s Gallery Fumi.
“Minjae Kim: Ba-Da” at Nina Johnson Gallery | Miami
Fresh off “Residual Energies,” this fall’s triumphant curatorial debut by Camille Okio, Nina Johnson Gallery takes a trip to the sea with its second show by Minjae Kim, on view in the upstairs gallery through November 23rd. Multi-functional furniture brings tidal waves of associations: a console is shaped like a hull and protects a variety of lighting fixtures cloaked in Kim’s signature quilted fibreglass, while a table is both a place for plates and a plate itself, offering ersatz “oysters.” And Boy at the sea, his recent foray into figurative work, is oceanic in emotion, embodying a young boy made of resin, foam, and plaster, who stoops on a load-bearing wood pedestal as if waiting, expectantly if anxiously, for what will wash up next.
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