Awards

The exhibition "The Fat Booty of Madness | Jewellery at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich: The Künzli Class" at the Pinakothek der Moderne receives red dot 2008 for outstanding design	Photo: Rainer Viertlboeck

For its outstanding design the exhibition "The Fat Booty of Madness | Jewellery at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich: The Künzli Class" has now received one of the most coveted design prizes worldwide: the “red dot”. The quality label for sophisticated and innovative design is awarded annually in the international competition “red dot design award”. This year, the jury consisting of 14 international design experts had to assess the design quality of almost 6,000 entries from 39 nations in the red dot award: communication design. All award-winning works will be presented to the public in an exhibition at the red dot design museum in Essen, Germany, from 4 December 2008 to 11 January 2009. Exhibition concept: Professor Otto Kuenzli, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich The artists’ individuality was the focal point of the conceptual installation. The assignment was to find space and create a sense of order for the enormous number of over 1,300 exhibits by 80 artists in the 400-square meter exhibition hall. The solution took the form of a composition of 130 arbitrarily positioned display cabinets of various origin, age, and character from 10 different museums – “ready-made” display cabinets, unadulterated with signs of use, in their historic authenticity. As such the heterogeneous work groups of small individual pieces could each be allocated its own spatial cosmos. Passing through the apparently untamed display cabinet landscape the visitors experienced tunneled views, paths and places, correlations and contrasts in front of the foil of the deliberately untouched White Cube. Jury “red dot award: communication design 2008” • Kelley Cheng, Page One Publishing, Singapore • Cathérine Faucheaux, Mona Lisa, Belgium • Martin Gassner, Interone Worldwide, Germany • Rainer Hirt, anemono Kommunikation, Germany • Lim Sau Hoong, 10 A.M. Communications, Singapore • Thomas Kurppa, Pharmacy Sthlm AB, Sweden • Tyron Montgomery, Augenreiz, Germany • Jean Jacques Schaffner, Schaffner und Conzelmann, Switzerland • Bettina Schulz, novum World of Graphic design, Germany • Jennifer Tsai, Proad Image Design, Taiwan • Michael Tupay, Yalos Quality Solutions, Greece • Prof. Kurt Weidemann, Germany • Holger Windfuhr, WirtschaftsWoche, Germany • Prof. Peter Wippermann, Trendbüro - Beratungsunternehmen für gesellschaftlichen Wandel KSW, Germany Exhibition site: The Fat Booty of Madness | Jewellery at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich: The Künzli Class