Category Archives: DESIGN

FINAESTAMPA — ILLUSTRATION AND FASHION

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FINAESTAMPA—ILLUSTRATION AND FASHION features the work of nearly two dozen artists, including François Berhoud, Blair Breitenstein, Jason Brooks, Helen Bullock, Gill Button, Cecilia Carlstedt, Jean-Philippe Delhomme, David Downton, Ricardo Fumanal, Laura Gulshani, Mats Gustafson, Richard Haines, Amelie Hegardt, Richard Kilroy, Jordi Labanda, Tanya Ling, Jowy Maasdamme, Inés Maestre, Rosie McGuinness, Aurore de la Morinerie, Hiroshi Tanabe, and Unskilled Worker.

The exhibition is complemented by a fully illustrated catalogue.

FINAESTAMPA—ILLUSTRATION AND FASHION

Through May 19.

Museo ABC

Amaniel 29–31, Madrid.

From top, left to right, artwork by Gill Button, Rosie McGuiness, Aurore de la Morinerie, Amelie Hegardt, Richard Kilroy, Laura Gulshani, Mats Gustafson, Richard Haines, François Berthoud, and Blair Breitenstein. Images courtesy the artists and Museo ABC.

A COMMON TREASURY

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As the March 29 deadline looms and a stumbling United Kingdom lurches toward a “no-deal” exit from the European Union, Mark Wallinger’s new large-scale anti-Brexit posters have hit the streets of London, Manchester, Bristol, and Glasgow.

The poster’s text is by Gerrard Winstanley (1609–1676), founder of the True Levellers—an agrarian colony also known as the Diggers—during the English Civil War.

Mark Wallinger, This Way Up, 2019, © Mark Wallinger, photograph by Andrew Parsons / i-Images.

ARAKAWA AND MADELINE GINS — ETERNAL GRADIENT

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The art, architecture, writing, urbanism, and scientific research of artist Arakawa and poet-painter-philosopher Madeline Gins are on view in ETERNAL GRADIENT, which “traces the emergence of architecture as a wellspring of creativity and theoretical exploration” in their work.*

Over forty drawings and extensive archival materials represent nearly half a century of collaboration. The Reversible Destiny Foundation was founded in 2010 by the late artists and continues to promote their work and philosophy in the areas of art, architecture. and writing.

ARAKAWA and MADELINE GINS—ETERNAL GRADIENT*

Through April 27.

Graham Foundation

Madlener House

4 West Burton Place, Chicago.

From top: Arakawa and Madeline Gins, Study for ‘Critical Holder,‘ 1990, acrylic, graphite, and colored pencil on paper; Arakawa and Madeline Gins, Screen-Valve, 1985-87, graphite and acrylic on paper; portrait of Arakawa and Gins, 2000, courtesy Dimitris Yeros; Arakawa and Madeline Gins, Screen-Valve, 1985-87, graphite and acrylic on paper; Arakawa and Madeline Gins, Drawing for ‘Container of Perceiving,’ 1984, acrylic, watercolor, and graphite on paper. Photographs by Nicholas Knight, images © 2018 Estate of Madeline Gins, reproduced with permission of the Estate of Madeline Gins.

GRACE WALES BONNER

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The public presentation of MUMBO JUMBO—Grace Wales Bonner’s Autumn/Winter 2019 collection that shares a title with Ismael Reed’s revolutionary 1972 novel—will conclude A TIME FOR NEW DREAMS, Wales Bonner’s exhibition at the Serpentine.

Throughout this final week of the show, the dancer and performance artist Michael-John Harper will take residence within the gallery and perform a daily ritual of movements.

Exploring “magical resonances within black cultural and aesthetic practices” through improvised installations and shrines, A TIME FOR NEW DREAMS also incorporates the work of Chino Amobi, Black Audio Film Collective, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, David Hammons, Michael-John Harper, Liz Johnson Artur, Rashid Johnson, Kapwani Kiwanga, Klein, Laraaji, Eric N. Mack, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ben Okri, Ishmael Reed, Sahel Sounds, and Wales Bonner.

GRACE WALES BONNER—A TIME FOR NEW DREAMS

Through February 16.

Serpentine Sackler Gallery

West Carriage Drive, Hyde Park, London.

Exhibition booklet.

From top: Eric N. Mack, Capital Heights, 2019, in Grace Wales Bonner—A Time for New Dreams, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, 2019; Rashid Johnson, Untitled (daybed 1), 2012; Wales Bonner; Grace Wales Bonner, Everything’s for Real; Liz Johnson Artur, There is only one…one, 2019. Images courtesy the artists and the Serpentine Galleries.

TUTTO GIO PONTI

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The MAD exhibition TUTTO PONTI—the first French retrospective of Gio Ponti’s œuvre—lives up to its name by including over 400 examples of the seminal designer’s work in architecture, furniture, and interior design.

In addition, the show looks at Ponti’s writing and publishing projects for Domus, where he was editor-in-chief from 1928 to 1941 and 1948 to 1979.

Ponti—whose career spanned nearly six decades—is strongly identified with the city of Milan, and many of the show’s pieces have never been seen outside of Italy.

TUTTO PONTI—

GIO PONTI—ARCHI-DESIGNER

Through May 5.

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

107 rue de Rivoli, 1st, Paris.

From top: Parco dei Principi Hotel, Sorrento, 1960, © Gio Ponti Archives; fresco Scala del Sapere, created by Ponti, Palazzo del Bo, University of Padua, image © Tom Mannion; Gio Ponti, drawings presented at industrial design exhibition at the 11th Milan Triennial, 1957, ink on paper, © Gio Ponti Archives; Ponti’s family apartment, Casa Laporte, Milan, 1936, © Gio Ponti Archives; living room at Villa Planchart, Caracas, designed by Ponti, 1953-57, © Antoine Baralhé Caracas, Anala and Armando Planchart Foundation; Domus 88 (April 1935), courtesy of Domus; Ponti’s letter with drawing to his daughter Lisa, © Gio Ponti Archives.