Copytopia Colorful Cabinet, Pierre Castignola

Copytopia is often viewed as the artist’s main body of work.
Fascinated by the complexity and symbols surrounding the infamous chair commonly known as monobloc, Castignola employs discarded plastic garden chairs as raw material, which he then cuts and reassembles to constitute a variety of everyday objects. With the use of existing pieces of furniture as part of new ones the artist sets out to question the legitimacy of intellectual property, while simultaneously prompting us to reevaluate our relationship with the objects around us, bringing value back to the ones some might consider disposable.

First following piece after the Copytopia armchair. The Copytopia Cabinet incorporate for the first time the use of colors and children sized plastic chair in his artistic practice. This one-off piece was presented for the first time in 2019 during the first exhibition of Surplus Collective during the Dutch Design Week. Since then it has traveled to a multitude of exhibitions from Amsterdam to Paris.