As a fan of modern furniture, David Diao has collected a variety of classic designer chairs, which also provide him with a wealth of visual resources. His recent work Berlin Chair Unassembled, 2018, seems simple and abstract, but in fact the shapes come from the influential Berlin Chair, which was designed by Dutch De Stijl furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld in 1923. The artist transforms the unassembled pieces into visual symbols, and arranges them in a row on the uneven blue ground.

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