Category Archives: DESIGN

HEDI EL KHOLTI’S COLLAGES

A selection of over sixty collage works by Hedi El KholtiSemiotext(e) and Animal Shelter co-editor and designer—are collected in A PLACE IN THE SUN, a Hesse Press publication.

“My collages always start with a vague notion, or a sentence, or they’re meant to be a visual portrait with vague associations of someone who’s close to me and their infinite numbers of mirrors in pop culture. As if, like me, they’re all comprised of the sum of their influences, whether they know it or not.” — Hedi El Kholti, “Pop Culture (Heroes and Villians),” PARIS LA 5 (Winter 2010/2011)

HEDI EL KHOLTI—A PLACE IN THE SUN (Los Angeles: Hesse Press, 2017).

From top: Hedi El Kholti, collage from A Place in the Sun, originally published in PARIS LA 5; cover PARIS LA 5; pages 10–11 from “Pop Culture (Heroes and Villains),” text and collages by Hedi El Kholti, PARIS LA 5; A Place in the Sun cover; collage from A Place in the Sun. Images courtesy and © Hedi El Kholti and Hesse Press.

KRAFTWERK — DANCE FOREVER

The exhibition KRAFTWERK—DANCE FOREVER—drawn from the collection of Toby Mott—documents the visual side of the highly influential electronic ensemble.

On view this weekend at Arcana are the promotional materials, sheet music, obsolete recorded media, posters, photographs, and musical toys that so distinguished the German ensemble’s aesthetic values.

The evening will feature Kraftwerk-themed musical sets by Rose Knows and Sean Horton, and Kraftwerk shirts and bags designed by Alex McWhirter.

Copies of the nearly 100-page, limited-edition catalogue—signed by Mott, who is attending the event—will be available.

KRAFTWERK—DANCE FOREVER

Saturday, April 13, from 5 pm to 9 pm.

Arcana—Books on the Arts

8675 Washington Boulevard, Culver City.

From top: Kraftwerk, materials designed by Toby Mott (2); Kraftwerk. Images courtesy the artists and Arcana Books.

HENZEL STUDIO AT SALONE 2019

Henzel Studio will mark its twentieth anniversary as well as five years of the Henzel Studio Collaborations program with a Salone Internazionale del Mobile exhibition at Rossana Orlandi.

The show will introduce new carpets by Ashley Bickerton, Carsten Höller, Tony Oursler, Jwan Yosef.

HENZEL STUDIO AT ROSSANA ORLANDI—FUORISALONE

April 8 through 11.

Rossana Orlandi

Via Matteo Bandello 14, Milan.

From top: Ashley Bickerton, Untitled, 2019, handmade art carpet; Jwan Yosef, Masking, 2018, handmade art carpet; Tony Oursler, Untitled, 2018, handmade art carpet; Carsten Höller, Mushroom Carpet, 2018, handmade art carpet. Images courtesy the artists and Henzel Studio.

NOVELTY AND DESIGN

What is the relationship between novelty and innovation?

“Our understanding of what constitutes good design evolves constantly. In the last fifty years design has developed from being a tool to sell new things, to making new things in more effective ways, to imagining new systems and ways of addressing new realities. But, is novelty a fundamental aspect of good design?”*

Join independent design curator Maria Cristina Didero, OMA partner Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, and Alice Rawsthorn—author of Hello_World and Design as an Attitude—for a Miartalks conversation, moderated by creative director Tony Chambers.

ON NOVELTY*

Sunday, April 7, from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm.

MIART

FIERA INTERNAZIONALE D’ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA

Fiera Milano City

Viale Lodovico Scarampo, Milan.

From top: Cooking SectionsWhat Is Above Is What Is Below, 2018, installation view, Manifesta 12, Palermo, co-organized and directed by Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, image courtesy Manifesta 12, photograph by Wolfgang Träger; Rawsthorne book cover image courtesy JRP|Ringier; Cristina Celestino, The Happy Room collection for Fendi, curated by Maria Cristina Didero, photograph courtesy Fendi.

ELAINE LUSTIG COHEN

The public graphic design work and private painting practice of the late Elaine Lustig Cohen are on view through mid-August at the Jewish Museum as part of its Scenes from the Collection program.

This week join curators Prem Krishnamurthy, Cole Akers, and Shira Backer for a conversation about this key twentieth century designer.

ELAINE LUSTIG COHEN talk

Thursday, April 4, at 6:30 pm.

Jewish Museum

1109 Fifth Avenue (at 92nd Street), New York City.

Elaine Lustig Cohen artwork, catalogue, logo, book jacket, architecture, and graphic design, from top: Primary Structures, The Jewish Museum, 1966, exhibition catalogue; Mask, 1967, sculpture; Stop Pollution, 1957, Water Resources Council, logo; Domingo, 1975, collage; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, catalogues (2), 1957 and 1961; 375 Park Avenue (Seagram Building), 1957, building signage; Stepanova, 2009, portrait; Louis I. Kahn, 1963, Braziller press, book jacket; Prelude to 1958–1959 Season, 1958, Kootz Gallery, invitation; Max Ernst, 1965, The Jewish Museum, exhibition catalog; Baby Doll, 1957, New Directions press, book jacket; Munson Williams Proctor Institute, 1960, building signage. Images © 2019 Estate of Elaine Lustig Cohen and courtesy the estate and the Jewish Museum.