{"id":225851,"date":"2024-05-22T12:27:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T16:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_news&p=225851"},"modified":"2024-05-22T12:27:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T16:27:59","slug":"galerie56-showcases-designer-porky-hefer-show","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/galerie56-showcases-designer-porky-hefer-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Porky Hefer Displays Playful Sculptures at Galerie56"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Designer Porky Hefer posing with the walrus Paul.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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May 22, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Annie Block<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Hayden Phipps\/Courtesy Of Southern Guild<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Porky Hefer Displays Playful Sculptures at Galerie56<\/h1>\n\n\n

Eileen Gray, Zizipho Poswa, Gaetano Pesce. All have been subjects of exhibitions at Galerie56<\/a>, a newcomer to the Manhattan arts scene founded by Interior Design<\/em> Hall of Fame member Lee F. Mindel<\/a> to celebrate the city\u2019s cultural intersection of art and architecture (it\u2019s aptly located at the base of Herzog & De Meuron\u2019s 56 Leonard \u201cJenga\u201d tower, next to a gleaming Anish Kapoor sculpture). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last of those initial three names, the recently deceased Pesce<\/a>, has been an inspiration to Porky Hefer<\/a>, whose solo show \u201cno bats, no chocolate\u201d is on view now at Galerie56. It continues Hefer\u2019s focus on animal behaviors, organic forms, and ecosystems\u2014we first wrote about him in 2017 when, after observing weaver birds, he had hand-fabricated human-size nests of fibers indigenous to South Africa, where he lives\u2014via nine new, playful sculptures of animals who have what he calls \u201cweird talents\u201d that benefit the planet (the title derives from that fact that bats are responsible for pollinating many plants including cacao). Although the exhibit\u2019s aim is a greater reverence for nature, \u201cPorky,\u201d Mindel says, \u201cappeals to the children in all of us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The nearly 6-foot-tall Warren appears in \u201cno bats, no chocolate,\u201d Porky Hefer\u2019s exhibition at Galerie56 in New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Designer Porky Hefer posing with the walrus Paul.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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My first beetle. Like the rest of the pieces, this work is handmade using locally sourced materials in collaboration with fellow South African studios Ronel Jordaan, Wellington Moyo, and Leather Walls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Victor. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Robert Nesta. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n