The American artist collaborated with the private aviation enterprise to design its VIP lounge at Art BaselThe Netjets VIP lounge at Art Basel, designed by Matthew Day Jackson
NetJets has been whisking its globetrotting clients to far-flung destinations for more than five decades. Tasked with the commission for the private aviation company’s VIP lounge atthis year, however, American painter, sculptor and photographer Matthew Day Jackson embarked on a mission to transport fairgoers even further, with a suite of paintings and new iterations of his furniture collection for Finnish design house Made By Choice, inspired by images of the moon.
Jackson was drawn to photographs by astronauts looking out into space, with one particular cataclysmic event igniting the line of inquiry that would result in hisseries of paintings. ‘It started with the first Gulf War, when the Iraqi Army was retreating and lit the oil fields on fire – you could see the trails of black smoke from space,’ explains the artist. ‘It made me think about how I could locate the event within our history.
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