Open to the public from Saturday May 26th to Sunday November 25th 2018, at the Giardini and the Arsenale, the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, titled FREESPACE, will be curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara and organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta.
R & Company is excited to partner with Egg Collective for Designing Women II: Masters, Mavericks, & Mavens. Curated by Egg Collective and Kinder Modern, the empowering exhibition unites historical and contemporary female designers, including R & Company designers Greta Magnusson Grossman, Nicola L, and Katie Stout. Open May 10 – June 1 at 304 Hudson Street No. 307.
»Night Fever« opens with the 1960s, exploring the emergence of nightclubs as spaces for experimentation with interior design, new media, and alternative lifestyles. The Electric Circus (1967) in New York, for example, was designed as a countercultural venue by architect Charles Forberg while graphic designers Chermayeff & Geismar created its distinctive logo and font.
NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator, presents Only Human, an exhibition at Mana Contemporary, which showcases the work of the first cohort of NEW INC artists participating in the artist-in-residence program at Nokia Bell Labs.
The Noguchi Museum presents Miya Ando: Clouds, an installation of two site-specific sculptures in the Museum’s indoor-outdoor gallery. The works, suspended plate-glass sculptures internally etched with images of clouds, share Isamu Noguchi’s interest in sculpting ephemeral materials, and in using them to shape space.
Carpenters Workshop Gallery | Paris presents Ocean Memories, an exhibition by designer Mathieu Lehanneur, from March 29th to June 22nd. In the continuity of his Liquid Marble series, Mathieu Lehanneur brings us a surrealistic and materialized vision of an ocen frozen in its movement.
‘Poème Brut’ highlights designers’ renewed interest in crafts, local techniques and materials. In recent years, their focus has shifted to manufacturing processes and materiality as a counterpoint to globalisation and dematerialisation. A central theme in the exhibition is the outcome of this research into materials and techniques.
For the new collection « Azo », François Bauchet continues his research on forms and materials.
Following on from the 2013« Cellae » collection involving the use of modular elements made of felt soaked in resin, Bauchet has now developed an innovative composite material of sand, resin and concrete.
Super Natural examines the perception of nature as a perfect, composed image. This series explores colors, forms, and industrial processes through functional objects made from epoxy resin in a range of scales. Eschewing the monotony of identical objects, these works resemble the structure of nature: similar at first glance yet varied upon inspection.
Glenn Ligon's first solo exhibition in Italy borrows its title from a line in Pier Paolo Pasolini's poem Ma Era L'Italia Nuda E Formicolante/But It Was a Naked and Swarming Italy, in which he depicts the privations and poetic possibility of the country during the post-war period.
At Milan Design Week 2018, a brand-new company from Spain, Nagami is making its official debut with a pioneering project, combining computational design and large-scale robotic 3D printing — Brave New World: Re-thinking Design in the New Age of Technology.
To celebrate their seventh year at Salone del Mobile, COS have partnered with American artist, Phillip
K. Smith III to create Open Sky – a light and reflection-based art installation.
The piece is housed in Palazzo Isimbardi, a building dating back to the 16th century located on
Milan’s Corso Monforte. Influenced by this setting, Smith’s inspiration for the installation came from
Michele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans four decades. The breadth of her artistic production encompasses sculpture, design objects, furniture, jewelry, public art and video installations.
Public engagement with politics has changed dramatically since 2008. Discover how graphic design and technology have played a pivotal role in dictating and reacting to the major political moments of our times.
Graphic design in the form of internet memes, posters and protest placards is being used by the marginalised and powerful alike to shape political messages like never before
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Art & Design is often an isolated industry, heavily determined by the location of the artist’s practice. Both viewer and creator struggle to draw inspiration from places never visited. Creating and exhibiting are now shifting to reflect the increasingly hyperconnected digital art world.
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