My Suitcase is my Oyster
After “When heroes quake” the next blitz concerning jewelry. For those who were not there, we have provided first pictures.
Leaving the studio of the artist, jewelry looks for his place. Often the road is long. In boxes packed, by customs officials fingered, rayed at the airport. Arrival at the place of revelation. The cases have come to rest. Open like clams. The jewelry reveals itself. Now the jewelry is visible. And ready to go with you on future visits. As for millennia. On land, sea and air. You show the world your jewelry. And your jewelry, which you show the world. Nice that we tremble no longer at the customs!
In the exhibition My Suitcase is my Oyster jewelry and objects by the students of the class Manon van Kouswijk the Rietveld Academie Amsterdam and Künzli Class of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich can be seen.
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The Fat Booty of Madness | Jewellery at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich: The Künzli Class
March 1 – May 18, 2008
The individuality of the artists was central to the conceptual installation. The brief was to create individual spaces for over 1,300 exhibits by 80 artists. The solution was a composition of 130 showcases positioned freely in the space; these came from a whole variety of museums and so worked almost as ready-mades in their authenticity. Each of the heterogeneous work groups made up of small individual pieces acquired its own spatial world in the cases. Against the background of the White Cube, which was deliberately left untouched, visitors could experience open visual swaths and pathways, connections and contrasts as they moved through this apparently wild showcase landscape.
After its original staging at London’s V&A Museum the exhibition titled, Cold War Modern – Design 1945-1970, is due to open at the National Gallery in Vilnius this Saturday, October 3rd. The show itself contains many layers of multi-media work that all represent the material apotheosis of the Cold War era.
Cold War Modern Design
2nd October – 6th December
National Gallery of Art of the Lithuanian Art Museum
Konstitucijos Ave. 22
LT-08105
Vilnius, Lithuania
Tel: (+370 5) 212 2997
Snoehetta Architects won the NORDIC SELECTED AWARD for their Oslo Opera House, openend in 2008.
Florian Hufnagl, director of Die Neue Sammlung, selected the winner from more than 100 nominees and handed over the prize during CODE09 in Copenhagen to Sigrun Aunan, Senior Architetct and Project Manager at Snoehetta, who also built the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin.
It is the first time that the prize was awarded. Two curators of each of the nordic countries – Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden – nominated exemplary works from their home country in the fields of architecture, product design, graphic design, arts & crafts and fashion/textiles. “Embarras de richesse” for design expert Professor Florian Hufnagl, who had to choose ten finalists and one winner.
“Nordic Selected is, in my opinion, a clear commitment to the art and culture of the Scandinavian countries. This is right and important, particularly in times of globalized industry, as only through specification in terms of stance and quality can there be any differentiation between competitors.
It is a strength and characteristic of Europe that despite there being much in common, over the course of its centuries-old history differences have also emerged that enrich the world and prevent uniformity.” (Florian Hufnagl)
The winners of NORDIC SELECTED AWARD 2009
Copenhagen Design Week is an international event that presents new ideas, knowledge and products – design that generates possibilities for a changing world. For one week, established and new design events are brought together and strengthened to provoke, excite and inspire. As a prelude to COP15 (the UN Climate conference that will be held later in the year), the theme will be sustainable design. Copenhagen Design Week takes place for the first time from 27 August to 6 September 2009.
Gerrit Engel and Florian Hufnagl press conference
New York – Berlin. Photographies. Gerrit Engel
29.07.2009 – 01.11.2009
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