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Category Archives: Retrospective

Graphic Modern, USA, Italy and Switzerland 1934–66

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 […]

Richard Hollis

Richard Hollis traveling exhibition, first held at the Libby Sellars Gallery, London, March 23 – April 28, 2012 (later held at: Centre Pompidou, Paris [February 2013]; ECAL, Lausanne [April 2013]; and Artists Space, New York [September 2013]) Curator: Emily King Statement: «As part of the team that turned John Berger’s epochal BBC TV series Ways […]

Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter

Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter Philip Feldman Gallery + Project Space at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon April 7 – June 17, 2011 Statement: «Printed Matter is pleased to announce the opening of Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter, an off-site exhibition at the Pacific Northwest […]

Deadly and Brutal: Film Posters from Ghana
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Deadly and Brutal: Film Posters from Ghana Pinakothek der Moderne, Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum, Munich, DE April 1 – June 26, 2011 Statement: «Graphic design from West Africa: This exhibition of the Neue Sammlung shows hand-painted posters advertising action films produced in Africa since the 1980s and Hollywood blockbusters. The large-format […]

Connecting the Past and the Future
Graphic Design Museum, Breda

Connecting the Past and the Future Graphic Design Museum / Museum of the Image, Breda, NL January 15 – May 29, 2011 Statement: «The past and the present are always connected. And this has persuaded the Graphic Design Museum to make connections between the history and the future of graphic image culture. The exhibition Connecting […]

Uncanny: Surrealism and Graphic Design
Moravian Gallery, Brno

Uncanny: Surrealism and Graphic Design Moravian Gallery, Brno, CZ 24th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno June 23 – October 24, 2010 Curator: Rick Poynor Statement: «The Surrealist movement of the 1920s and 1930s focused on literature, painting, photography and the object, and the Surrealists’ publishing activities provided only hints of what a fully conceived […]

Kiosk: Modes of Multiplication (the book)

Kiosk: Modes of Multiplication «Since 2001, Christoph Keller’s famous archive “Kiosk – Modes of Multiplication” has been exhibited 27 times all around the world, in institutions such as the ICA (London), the Witte de With (Rotterdam), Artists’ Space (NY), the Emily Carr Institute (Vancouver), MUDAM (Luxembourg) and some biennials such as Manifesta 4, the 25th […]

It Is What It Is (2×4)

It Is What It Is Eye of Gyre Gallery, Tokyo September 2009 Statement: «It is what it is: a portrait of a studio in 1000 images was exhibited at the Eye of Gyre Gallery in Tokyo in September 2009. The exhibition catalog features 1000 by-products from the life of the New York graphic design studio […]

Quick Quick Slow: Word Image and Time
Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon

Quick Quick Slow: Word Image and Time Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT September 11, 2009 – January 3, 2010 Experimenta 2009 Curator: Emily King Exhibition design: Maria João Mântua (PT) Graphic design: Frith Kerr (GB) Statement: «This exhibition surveys the dimension of time in graphic design, looking as far back as the early 20th century […]

Wim Crouwel 80
Van Abbemuseum (library), Eindhoven

Wim Crouwel 80 Van Abbemuseum (Library), Eindhoven, NL November 18, 2008 – January 9, 2009 Statement: «To celebrate Wim Crouwel’s 80th birthday (November 21, 2008), the Van Abbemuseum and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam are looking back on the period during which, in his capacity as graphic designer, he designed catalogues, posters, invitations and the letterhead […]