“Raw Design” opens at Museum of Craft and Design
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The Museum of Craft and Design features “Raw Design,” a group exhibition curated by Glenn Adamson, curator, theorist and former Director of Museum of Arts and Design, New York. The exhibition is on view through October 28, 2018.“Raw Design” offer visi
“Raw Design” opens at Museum of Craft and Design
The Museum of Craft and Design features “Raw Design,” a group exhibition curated by Glenn Adamson, curator, theorist and former Director of Museum of Arts and Design, New York. The exhibition is on view through October 28, 2018.“Raw Design” offer visitors an opportunity to explore contemporary design in its most fundamental condition. “The exhibition features cutting-edge talents, in addition to established figures who anticipated contemporary concerns in the late 1960s, such as Gaetano Pesce. One element all of the artists presented in ‘Raw Design’ have in common is a certain no-nonsense stance,” the museum says.According to the museum, the biggest story in 21st-century design has undoubtedly been the rise of the digital. Armed with new tools, we are connecting to each other in unprecedented ways. This powerful reshaping of human experience has brought many positive changes — but also a sense of unease. Digital experiences are not necessarily scaled to the human body. They often bring with them a dizzying sense of being unmoored from physicality, lost in a maze of constant mediation.The museum believes that at a time in history when spin threatens to overwhelm us, this show offers another way – an alternative to “alternative facts.” In the process, hopefully, it demonstrates that palpable physicality is by no means obsolete as a creative force. Most of all, this project aims to present contemporary design in its most fundamental condition — as material intervention — so that it can be seen more clearly.“Raw Design” marks an interesting moment in the history of technique. Rather than turning to long-established, complex repertoires like those of wood joinery and glass blowing, designers seem to prefer inventing new techniques, or else act as if their medium were being discovered for the first time.The participating artists include: Omer Arbel, Dana Barnes, Brooke Breckner, Scott Bodenner, Iris Eichenberg, Jes Fan, FormaFantasma, Karin Forslund, GT2P, Marlene Huissoud, Misha Kahn, Julia Kunin, Max Lamb, Beth Lipman, Julia Lohmann, Mieke Meijer, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Gaetano Pesce, Lex Pott, Jonathan Swanz, Brad Evan Taylor and Thaddeus Wolfe. Additional works are by Zoe Sheehan Saldaña.“At its best, ‘Raw Design’ is not just an opposition movement or a symbolic, escapist gesture. It is a pragmatic investigation into new modes of working, often finding inspiration from science, though typically carried out in a self-reliant, DIY spirit,” commented the curator Adamson.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more
