Posts Tagged ‘exhibition design’
Culture Chanel Exhibition, Guangzhou
January 24th, 2013 – Chanel has commissioned Jean-Louis Froment, the art director of Prince Pierre Foundation of Monaco, to curate their latest exhibition at Zaha Hadid’s famed Guangzhou Opera House in China. The creative team at chanel teamed up with Froment to deliver a deep rooted history of founder Coco Chanel, and shed light on her tight knit group of groundbreaking artist friends which included people like Amedeo Modigliani, , Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso, all of whom had a massive impact on 20th century art. Titled Culture Chanel, the exhibit is centered around Picasso’s biggest paint job: le train bleu. The expansive stage backdrop was painted in 1924 by Picasso for his close friend Sergei Diaghilev, artistic director of Ballets Russes, who used it for an eponymous choreography. On display are over 400 works, including drawings, photographs, paintings, manuscripts, books and films. To top it off, Chanel’s fashion creations by both the legendary Coco and Chanel’s current designer Karl Lagerfeld, are blended into the art filled exhibition.
(photography By Jonathan Leijonhufvud)
DEFENSE Future Room Installation, Zurich
Over in Switzerland, Zurich just became the home of the new Defense Exhibition at the Vögele Cultural Center. Nau Studios is responsible for the creating of the new exhibit which mixes a high-tech style with kryptonite green design elements. The design has manifested from the idea that “at times a thin veil provides better defense than the thickest of armor.” The dynamic exhibition space is divided by semitransparent fabric planes and carpeted islands into seven themed areas, each circumscribing a defense mechanism, ranging from bunkers to camouflage and cooperation.
Nau explains that “defense strategies are diverse, often intuitive, and sometimes surprising – the exhibited objects emphasize the parallel use of defense mechanisms in distinctive fields.” Where do these strategies happen? The Future Room. The Future Room anchors the center of the room and is a gleaming white disc acting as an open forum where visitors can participate and record their thoughts. The exhibition is conceived as a cultural, sensory experience, where the visitor is submerged in a poison green world where sight, sound and senses of smell are activated!
(Photography: Jan Bitter)
Fabio Novembre at The Triennale Design Museum
Fabio Novembre says “drawing a rainbow to connect Heaven and Earth in that constant state of human balance we maintain with our feet in the mud and head up in the stars.” Novembre’s quote is the defining concept for his new exhibition at Milan’s Triennale Design Museum. The “rainbow” is an artistic metaphor for an “intangible pathway ” from Heaven to Earth, which is represented in the colorful exhibition. Novembre explained that creating the exhibition “involved exhibiting something absolutely new compared to previous editions, a selection of carefully chosen items confirming the theory that there is only one Italian school of graphics,” continuing on to explain “even though it has no proper structure, hardly surprising since the same could be said about everything connected with our dear old unpredictable country.”
Novembre was asked to add a third dimension to graphics – which are almost always two dimensional. The third dimension came in the form of a built space: full of color and divided into nine sections consisting of books, letters, magazines, culture and politics, packaging, advertising, visual identity, video and signposting. The clever designer imagined the space as a blank book, then decided to introduce the color spectrum to the empty white pages. “using color as an authentic graphic hypertext to support material, which, nevertheless, require more complex codes in order to be fully interpreted.” There’s some food for thought for ya!
(Photography: Fabio Novembre)
ICD + ITKE Research Pavilion 2011
The Institute for Computer-Based Design and the Institute for Structural Engineering and Structural Design, University of Stuttgart, have come together again to create a structure which embodies the idea of bionics. The structure is intended to be an “advance of the search for a natural structure,which has an especially efficient and adaptable character: light weight, while capacity and flexibility.” The two teams searched for a reflection of this concept in nature and after some digging, found it at the marina: the Sand Dollar. “Belonging to the family of sea urchins, it returns the prototype, at the skeletal structure of the resulting experimental pavilion ajar.”
The idea behind building the pavilion was an essential and integral architectural lesson to the students, in that the architecture students work closely with the scientists to understand biological pattern formations and how to incorporate that into architecture. The result is a multi-dimensional material system made of connecting facets of birch plywood – a 72-square-foot structural and artistic pavilion with seating for park visitors to stop and enjoy!
(ICD/ITKE Universität Stuttgart )
Atelier Markgraph Designs For Germany’s Youth
The Federal Republic Of Germany’s House Of History is shining a spotlight on what it’s like to be a young German through their latest exhibition by Atelier Markgraph. The exhibition titled “17: Being Young In Germany”, examines how it feels to be young, and to find and shape your personality. The designer used roughly 800 exhibits, interactive media instillation, and music, to present growth from the 1950′s to the present. Whether it is sexual rebellion, religion, or education, each section of the instillation is designed with it’s own mood or feel reflecting the topic.
(Photographs Provided By Atelier Markgraph)
