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Category Archives: Art and Design

Thick as a Brick

Thick as a Brick Giò Marconi, Milan April 9-14, 2013 Curator: Maria Cristina Didero Design: Kuehn Malvezzi, Mousse Publishing and Petersen Statement: «Thick As A Brick presents a selection of more than 100 catalogues, books, art editions and zines published by Mousse and shown within three brick structures conceived by Kuehn Malvezzi and produced by […]

Metamuseum (tumblr)

Metamuseum http://metamuseum.tumblr.com Statement: «Teaming with a group of 13 American museums and cultural institutions with design, craft and architecture collections, writer and critic Alexandra Lange has woven together the Multi-Museum, Multi-Curator Tumblr project MetaMuseum. Each week, work chosen by curators at each institution will be presented on tumblr and released through other social media outlets. […]

Couture graphique

Couture graphique MOTI Museum of the Image, Breda, NL February 16, 2013 – Curator: José Teunissen (Professor in Fashion Theory at ArtEZ in Arnhem, Holland and since 2009 visiting professor to the University of the Arts in London) Statement: «CoutureGraphique is the first exhibition ever about fashion and graphic design; an exhibition in which we […]

Frozen Lakes

Frozen Lakes January 20 – March 24, 2013 (then extended through March 31, 2013) Artists Space, New York Statement: «In his essay accompanying the 1977 exhibition Pictures at Artists Space, and in a subsequent text published by October in 1979, the art historian Douglas Crimp introduced the work of a generation of artists, and their […]

Metahaven: Islands in the Cloud

Metahaven: Islands in the Cloud MoMA PS1, New York January 20 – April 1, 2013 Statement: «Founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden in 2007 as a design and research studio, Metahaven has come to define a new methodology in graphic design. The studio’s speculative practice privileges the vocabulary of graphic design as […]

Most Valuable Publishers at Rookie Festival

MVP – MOST VALUABLE PUBLISHERS December 6-8, 2012 / Rookie Festival, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznań PL December 29, 2012 – January 13, 2013 / Arsenał City Gallery, Poznań PL Cura­tor: Honza Zamojski Arti­sts: «The sports ana­logy of the ROOKIE FESTIVAL is exten­ded thro­ugh to the MVP exhi­bi­tion, apply­ing the title to the Most Valuable Publishers […]

Project Projects: Test Fit

(via manystuff) Project Projects: Test Fit November 17, 2012 – April 28, 2013 Art Institute, Chicago (Gallery 286) Statement: «Project Projects, a New York–based graphic design firm led by Prem Krishnamurthy, Adam Michaels, and Rob Giampietro, has become known for developing publications, exhibitions, and identities for a range of cultural institutions and educational organizations, as […]

The Carpetalogue / MM (Paris)

The Carpetalogue / MM (Paris) Libby Sellers Gallery, London October 10 – December 15, 2012 Statement: «Gallery Libby Sellers presents a series of elaborately detailed and intricately woven carpet designs by the French art and design duo M/M (Paris). Commissioned in celebration of both their twentieth anniversary and the publication of a definitive monograph of […]

Cura. Magazine
Making an Exhibition

The multifarious relations of graphic design with exhibition making seem to be at the centre of attention of all who are interested in the exhibition context or operate within it. “Cura.” magazine – a quarterly that is part of a wider curatorial project – has launched, with its Spring/Summer 2012 issue, a new feature, Making […]

Wide White Space
The Book

Wide White Space (The Way Beyond Art) was an exhibition held in 2011 at the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco – aimed at investigating ‘graphic design’s evolving relationship with the practice of exhibition making as it intersects with the visual arts and the work of both artists and curators’ –, a series of lectures, […]