Experience the sight (and smell) of 72,000 ripening bananas at the Deitch Gallery until February 23rd, stacked by Stefan Sagmeister as part of his interactive show, Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far. More photos here.
Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far
until February 23, 2008
Deitch Gallery
76 Grand Street
New York, NY
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MoMA’s ‘Design and the Elastic Mind‘ opens tonight with over 200 objects on display exploring the relationship between design, science and innovation. The exhibition focuses on the role of the designer to help the general public adapt and understand rapid technological advancement and the changing human condition in the contemporary world. (Whew!) Here’s the pitch:
In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design’s most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change.
Design and the Elastic Mind
February 24 - May 12, 2008
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street (btwn. Fifth & Sixth ave.)
New York, NY 10019
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Archetypes: An exhibition of rare and limited-edition work by Ettore Sottsass
6 May 2008 Author: zenon In: Design & Products
The Friedman Benda gallery in New York City presents an exhibition opening tomorrow, May 1st through June 21st, devoted to the ideas and explorations of Ettore Sottsass. Here’s a snippet:
This exhibition will reflect Sottsass’ broad-based investigation of the essential attributes, or archetypal forms, patterns and structures that convey universal ideas and explore the rituals of daily life. This quest underlies the myriad of domestic objects, volumes of photography, and architectural projects Sottsass created throughout his extensive working life.
The exhibition will include a number of iconic and metaphorical works including the well-known Neferititi desk (1968), first shown in the 1972 MoMA exhibition, Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, a Superboxi cabinet (1968) and the rare Flying Carpet Armchair (1972). Experimental works from the later 1970s, including Le Strutture Tremano side table (1979) which he created for Studio Alchimia, will be on view and for the first time in America, a group of bookcases and rarely seen glass sculptures from the early 1990s will be shown in the context of the earlier work.
