Freeze Console

The Frieze Altar Console, is a limited-edition work by Sebastian ErraZuriz that pays homage to ancient sculpture while blurring the boundary between art and design. ErraZuriz uses technology to “steal” revered classical motifs and builds new sculptural and functional objects with these “stolen” forms. “Many of the sculptures we have learned to love and revere are broken, fragmented. Would they be as mysterious and fascinating to us if we could see them in their pristine original appearance?”.

For this work, Errazuriz utilizes 3-D scanning to capture the reliefs of Greco-Roman masterpieces from renowned museum collections. He then digitally manipulates them to be recast in marble as a working credenza.

He states: “It’s an act of gluttony and lust to appropriate that which belongs to the sacred world of the arts and to then use it freely in an exploration of its boundaries within the realm of the functional and the mundane.”