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by Israel Baumgartner
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Back in the early 1980s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him – “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design?
As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important principles for what he considered was good design. (Sometimes they are referred as the ‘Ten commandments’.)
The work of Dieter Rams can be summarised best by his 10 design propositions:
1. Good design is innovative.
2. Good design makes a product understandable.
3. Good design is elegant.
4. Good design makes a product useful.
5. Good design is unobtrusive.
6. Good design is honest.
7. Good design is long living.
8. Good design is consequent right to the very last detail.
9. Good design is friendly to the environment.
10. Good design is as little design as possible.
A retrospective exhibition dedicated to Dieter Rams, one of the 20th century’s most influential industrial designers. As head of design at Braun, the German consumer electronics manufacturer, Rams defined an elegant and rigorous visual language for its products.
The Book Club is pleased to invite you to a very special exhibition launch from talented photographer, Mila Nesterova who will be exhibiting a series of large-scale fashion and still life prints and light boxes. Presented in two parts, BIOLUMINESCENCE is a powerful and exhilarating study of experimental ultraviolet lighting effects. It includes fashion and still life images, the latter being shown for the very first time. Taking from what the French call ecrire avec lalumiere translated as writing with the light, Mila Nesterova calls herself an ‘explorer of light’.
April 28 – July 24 Inspiration Dior exhibition at the Pushkin Museum Moscow
April 22 – May 1 A highly interesting collection of Soviet agitation textiles and designs from 1920 – 1930 will be shown at the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia.
The exhibition was brought to you by the V. Potanin Charity Fund which also supports The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, among many other organizations.
For the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin, MoMu, the Fashion Museum in Antwerp and Mercedes-Benz, invited Belgian art director Frederik Heyman and 4 fashion designers —Bernhard Willhelm, Peter Pilotto, Henrik Vibskov and Mikio Sakabe—to create 4 installations.
Nicholas Robinson Gallery presents the first New York solo exhibition of Portuguese artist, Miguel Palma.
Palma’s work most often consists of sculptural pieces and large-scale installations created from mechanized, industrial and sundry other found objects. The various elements are incorporated in intricate, cyclical and/or self-sustaining systems. Palma’s projects routinely explore the world’s hurried technological development, proposing alternative, and often ironic, paths that could be taken with the same technical knowledge at our disposal.
La boule rouge
L’acrobate
Le robinet
Le jongleur
La declaration
La nuage chaise or
László Moholy-Nagy was a Jewish-Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. Moholy-Nagy died of leukemia in Chicago in 1946. Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest is named in his honour. Works by him are currently on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The software company Laszlo Systems (developers of the open source programming language OpenLaszlo) was named in part in honor of Moholy-Nagy. In 1998, he received a Tribute Marker from the City of Chicago.
Decadence Now! Visions of Excess brings work by Jan Van Oost, Alexander Kosolapov, Richard Stipl, and Geza Szollosi to Prague. The group show has a simple theme – big over the top art. Hosted by Galerie Rudolfinum, the exhibition has some great shock value too… for example Stipl turns Hitler into a bear skin rug.
Decadence Now! Visions of Excess brings work by Jan Van Oost, Alexander Kosolapov, Richard Stipl, and Geza Szollosi to Prague. The group show has a simple theme – big over the top art. Hosted by Galerie Rudolfinum, the exhibition has some great shock value too… for example Stipl turns Hitler into a bear skin rug.
