Akari: Sculpture by Other Means occupies includes several installations that allow visitors to experience ways that Isamu Noguchi’s Akari—a modular ecosystem of lightweight, collapsible paper lanterns—can create and transform space.
The London Open 2018 brings together the most dynamic and critical contemporary art being made in the capital today. The latest edition of this triennial summer exhibition offers a free, lively space to discover new work and reflect on a time of significant change in this global city.
'i have the feeling that (these pieces) are no benefit to mankind – please, take a good look at them, and tell me your impression [...] answer me quickly whether it would be better to consider such things as studies that at most might influence one's usual work.'
Rapid societal change through technology is generally regarded as a positive force - when problems arise the solution is more tech. We are on a capitalist quest for the ultimate application, the answer to everything, the Magnum Opus - but in many ways this quest is as naive as the alchemist’s. We consume magical devices and ignore the impacts of this accelerating change.
2018 marks the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, the first public building designed by the world-renowned architect Norman Foster.
In celebration, the Sainsbury Centre is launching a major exhibition to shine a light on developments in architecture from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Bold Tendencies is excited to present ten new commissions from international artists in the rooftop spaces of the Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park for our most ambitious summer project to date. Working across art, orchestral music, opera and architecture Bold Tendencies will open to the public 18 May - 22 September 2018.
Escobedo (b. 1979, Mexico City) is the 18th and youngest architect yet to accept the invitation to design a temporary Pavilion on the Serpentine Gallery lawn in Kensington Gardens. This pioneering commission, which began in 2000 with Zaha Hadid, has presented the first UK buildings of some of the biggest names in international architecture.
The “auto-màtic” exhibition, hosted at the Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, a former Renaissance convent in the heart of Barcelona’s La Rambla, converted into a contemporary art centre, addresses the limits and potential of generative drawing, by exploring how the Automation Revolution is shaping the work of architects, designers and creatives.
21_21 DESIGN SIGHT holds "AUDIO ARCHITECTURE" Exhibition from June 29, 2018, welcoming Yugo Nakamura as its director, whose unique forms of expression are highly regarded in web design, interface design and film.
Readymades constructed from old car seats, innovative carbon fibre furniture, hand-welded steel furnishings and sculptural mass-manufactured products: works by the world-famous designer Ron Arad defy conventional boundaries. The Vitra Design Museum’s monographic exhibition »Ron Arad: Yes to the Uncommon!« gives an overview of his diverse oeuvre.
There is a small but significant detail on Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni’s Arco lamp which Konstantin Grcic admires. A hole runs through the solid rectangular marble base, wide enough for a broomstick to fit through such that two people can then use it to lift the stone.
Oscar Tuazon identifies primarily as a sculptor, though his practice occupies a position between sculptural concerns, architecture and activism. His large-scale installations consist of structures that foreground their own means of construction, most notably through his use of industrial materials.
Volume Gallery is pleased to announce Friday, June 1, 2018, an exhibition of ceramic sculptures by Jennefer Hoffmann in her first solo exhibition.
Design Miami/ Basel returns June 12–17, 2018, for its thirteenth edition, featuring forty-seven gallery presentations and ten Curio installations as well as Satellites, Collaborations, Talks, and exclusive events. Design Miami/ Basel 2018 also incorporates a number of exciting programs.
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents the first solo of the succesful Dutch duo Studio Drift.
In addition to early designs, the exhibition features new, previously unseen work by the Dutch duo Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta – the founders of Studio Drift. Specially for the presentation at the Stedelijk, Studio Drift will create the largest-ever installation of Fragile Future.
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