Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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 […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Small Stories Bigger Picture MOTI Museum of the Image, Breda, NL September 13 – December 16, 2012 Curators: Sven Ehmann (Gestalten) and Dennis Elbers (MOTI) Statement: «Who doesn’t want to fly like a bird? And who doesn’t want to witness that? Human Bird wings, a portrait of the fictitious character Jarno Smeets and his attempts […]
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The Magic of Things: Product Posters Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, CH August 29, 2012 – January 6, 2013 Statement: «“The Magic of Things” explores a by-and-large obsolete advertising strategy in the area of the product poster: banal, everyday objects – butter, a sewing machine or shoes – are presented as desirable objects that entice us […]
We Demand Happiness! Protest posters 1975-1985 MOTI Museum of the Image, Breda, NL August 28, 2012 – February 1, 2013 Curator: Geert Lovink Statement: «During the governement formation, MOTI will be presenting a new exhibition called We Demand Happiness! In our present era of crisis and revolution, the museum will be looking back on protest […]
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, […]
Also filed in Art and Design, Collective exhibitions, Conference, Contemporary, Context, Curating, Exhibit design, Exhibition Making, Galleries, Publication, Reference, Schools, USA
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Some shots and quotes from the conference Graphic Design, Exhibiting, Curating that we organized on June 26. A publication including the talks and extracts from the discussion will follow in Autumn-Winter 2012. «People who disagree with the exhibition of graphic design give the argument, among others, that graphic design is about context, and the exhibition […]
Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2011 (awarded in January 2012) first held at Helmhaus Zürich, Zurich, July 5-8, 2012 and later traveling to other venues (see schedule) Statement: «The competition ‘The Most Beautiful Swiss Books’ on an annual basis. It thereby recognizes excellence in the field of book design and production, as well drawing attention to […]
Also filed in Award, Books, Collection, Collective exhibitions, Contemporary, Installation, Publication, Publishing, Switzerland, Thematic, Travelling exhibitions
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Two or Three Things I Know About Provo first held at w139, Amsterdam later on show at the 25th International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno, June 22 – October 28, 2012 Statement: «Invited by the organizers of the 25th International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno to guest-curate one of the exhibitions, Experimental Jetset […]
Also filed in Authorship, Curating, Czech Republic, Ephemera, Exhibition Making, History, Installation, Netherlands, Printing, Protest, Solo show, Stories, Subculture, Travelling exhibitions
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Zak Kyes Working With… from Graham Foundation on Vimeo. Zak Kyes Working With… Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, June 14 – September 23, 2012 See the older post about Zak Kyes Working With… in Leipzig and in London.
Also filed in Architecture, Art and Design, Award, Contemporary, Critical Design, Curating, Exhibition Making, Installation, Museums, Resource, Solo show, USA, Video
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Fordham University at Lincoln Center Center Gallery 113 West 60th Street June 4 – July 26, 2012 Curators: Patricia Belen and Greg D’Onofrio (Kind Company) Statement: «Modernism, an ideology that covers a range of styles, is rooted in the Russian and European avant-garde including Constructivism, Dada, De Stijl, Futurism, and the New Typography – movements […]
