Troika - Pandamonium 1
Troika
Surrogate
Mixed media
H 80 x L 120 cm
Lot no: 7
For this effect, Troika enhanced the baby panda's eyes with glowing lasers – creating an 'android' (or should that be ‘pandroid’?) that becomes a symbol for people’s capacity to destroy themselves and nature with technology.
“If we fast-forward into the not-so-distant future, we could imagine a world where nature and not only the panda but the entire animal world have been pushed aside by bleak man-made landscapes.”
Estimated value: £1,000 - £1,500
Troika is a multi-disciplinary art and design practice founded in 2003 by Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel. They met whilst studying at the Royal College of Art in London. Troika’s approach focuses on the fusion between the art and design disciplines and is born out of a love of simplicity and playfulness, and an essential desire to provoke. Troika was shortlisted for the Designer of the Year Award at the Design Museum in 2009, and was awarded the Yellow Pencil Award 2009 for Troika Cloud, the British Airways commission for T5. Troika has authored two books: Digital by Design, 2008, and Moscow Style, 2005.
Selected exhibitions
2008 Space and Place. Experimental Design, Amsterdam
2008 Design and The Elastic Mind. MoMA, New York
2007 GET IT LOUDER. British Council, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing
2007 Responsive. Roppongi Hill Arena, Tokyo
2006 Noise Of Art. Tate Britain, London
Selected collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
British Council Collection
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
British Airways Collection, T5
The auction
The pieces were auctioned on 12 October 2009 at Selfridges, Oxford Street, London to raise funds for WWF.
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