Hommage à Yves Klein

The work of Danish designer Mathias Bengtsson is a hybrid between craft and high technology whose limits he pushes in exploring its sculptural possibilities. In Growth Table, he combines computational design with aviation technology. Using a new simulation programme, he transposes the growth patterns of living organisms on his material. The growth of the table is thus governed by the algorithms controlling the repetitive action of a six-armed robot that makes cumulative deposits strings of steel, layer after layer