WADDLE TABLE BY ROMAN ANDRUSENKO

THE APOTHEOSIS OF HIS SINGULAR ARTISTIC VISION, ANDRUSENKO’S CURRENT COLLECTION IS DISTINGUISHED BY A BALANCE OF STRENGTH AND PLAYFULNESS, WEIGHT AND LEVITY, PROVOCATION AND CHARM. EACH TANTALIZING WORK IS STEEPED IN ANDRUSENKO’S SIGNATURE SENSE OF IRONY AND ENGAGES THE VIEWER NOT ONLY THROUGH FUNCTION BUT ALSO THROUGH CHARACTER, ANIMATING DOMESTIC SPACE WITH FORMS THAT FEEL AT ONCE FAMILIAR AND SURPRISING

GROUNDED IN THE TRADITIONS OF HERITAGE EUROPEAN CRAFTSMANSHIP YET UNAFRAID TO CHALLENGE CONVENTION, THE SERIES EMBRACES DUALITIES: SOLIDITY AND AIRINESS, BRUTALITY AND TENDERNESS, MEMORY AND INVENTION. IMBUED WITH DRAMATIC PRESENCE AND EBULLIENT PERSONALITY, THE COLLECTION OFFERS AN INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE RITUALS OF DAILY LIFE WITH A RENEWED SENSE OF CHILDLIKE WONDER AND POSSIBILITY

A NATURAL EXTENSION OF THE MATERIA VIVA COLLECTION, THE WADDLE DINING TABLE IS BOTH MONUMENT AND CREATURE. A SLAB OF SOLEMN MASS HOISTED ALOFT BY LEGS THAT SEEM TO BELONG TO SOMETHING ALIVE. SPLAYED OUTWARD WITH THE ENDEARING, WIDE-FOOTED GAIT OF A BEAR NAVIGATING UNCERTAIN TERRAIN, THOSE LIMBS CARRY THEIR CONSIDERABLE BURDEN WITH AN ALMOST COMEDIC DIGNITY. THE TABLETOP COMMANDS THE ROOM WITH SCULPTURAL AUTHORITY, YET THE WHOLE PIECE IS UNDERMINED, DELIGHTFULLY, BY THE SUGGESTION OF MOTION—OF A LUMBERING, GOOD-NATURED BEAST CAUGHT MID-STRIDE. BRUTALISM HERE IS NOT COLD; IT IS CLUMSY, WARM, AND SELF-AWARE. WADDLE TRANSFORMS THE MOST COMMUNAL OF FURNITURE INTO A CHARACTER STUDY: UNAPOLOGETICALLY SOLID, UNEXPECTEDLY TENDER, AND IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE