Taking Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs (1965) as a conceptual model, the exhibition at Postmasters will consist of 92 shelves, each with a single pasta unit, its mathematical formula, and its 3D printed incarnation. Serkan Özkaya came across the publication titled “Pasta by Design” by the designer George L. Legendre. The book’s idea was eerily close to Özkaya’s plan for the exhibition: Legendre had approached pasta varieties as design objects, analyzing 92 different types in order to figure out the mathematical equations describing each seemingly organic shape with loving precision. He had effectively reversed the formula-to-form process. Özkaya contacted Legendre and they have collaborated to move the project to stage three: transforming the pasta equations into individual, 3-D printed objects.

Serkan Özkaya and George L. Legendre. Courtesy of Postmasters.

Installation view. Courtesy of Serkan Özkaya website.

“One and Three Pasta” is on view through April 19, 2014.
For more information visit Postmasters, New York.