TRNK Launches REND, a Virtual Design Exhibition & Short Film.

Forced to re-think how to present new works in the current climate, NYC-based design curator and studio TRNK launches REND, a virtual exhibition with four designers whose work shares a common material language: metal and stone.

Produced in collaboration with Berlin-based artist Hannes Lippert of Form & Rausch, REND opens the exhibition in a virtual fictitious and surrealist environment. Participating designers are  Seoul-based artists Sisan Lee and  FICT Studio, Mexico- based Disciplina Studio and TRNK Collection, designed in-house by TRNK. Through newly commissioned and limited-edition pieces, the exhibit interrogates common contrasts—hard and soft, rigid and flexible, warm and distant.

“While each designer ultimately reached very different design languages, the chosen works shared similar elements of tension and contrast in materiality that I really wanted to investigate further,” said Tariq Dixon, founder of TRNK. “I hope the show challenges viewers to examine designs with varied lenses – to perhaps borrow these designers’ perspectives to reconsider the objects and materials that they interact with every day.”

The exhibition also marks another chapter for TRNK to offer clients access to studio-made objects in a virtual environment. The classical architecture adds to the dreamy textural scenery against the manipulation of metal and stone.

“I like the feeling and characteristic of old thermal bathhouses or hammam,” said Lippert of Form & Rausch. “These places are fulfilled with peace and silence, which helps highlight the chosen art pieces in a clean, quiet surrounding.”

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[Images & video courtesy of TRNK.]