Enzo Mari.
Courtesy Italian Cultural Institute
Through 09.05.08
Enzo Mari
This exhibition showcases over 60 objects created by Italian designer Enzo Mari and produced by Alessi, Artemide, Danese, Driade, Hida Sangyo, Kartell, Magis, Muji, Poltrona Frau, Robots, Zani & Zani, and Zanotta. As a writer, artist, educator, and architect within the field of environmental, furniture, and product design, Mari is preoccupied with the role of object design in everyday living.
Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Avenue
Like We Never Met. 2003. Found mahogany glazed doorz. Two parts, each: 91.14×26.97 inches.
Anya Gallaccio, courtesy Lehmann Maupin NY
Through 09.06.08
Nature Interrupted
Eleven artists show diverse sorts of concern for the environment. Anya Gallaccio’s installation Like We Never Met (2003) includes a series of doors with flowers pressed behind glass. Over the course of the exhibition, the flowers blacken and decay, highlighting the instability of the natural materials and the permanence of the cast objects. The drawings in Helen Brough’s series Cataclysmic Hypotheses generate imaginary visions of iconic contemporary architecture that will eventually become ruins. In her photographs and videos, Chus Garcia-Fraile inserts escalators and other examples of modern technology into pristine jungles and landscapes. The mind boggles!
The Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd Street
Parsons The New School for Design
Through 09.28.08
2008 Annual Design Review
Parsons The New School for Design and I.D. magazine presents the most innovative design work from the past year in an exhibition organized in conjunction with the magazine’s 2008 Annual Design Review, which publishes selected work in eight design categories including: consumer products, graphics, packaging, environments, furniture, equipment, concepts, and interactive media. This exhibition offers a look at the state of contemporary design and its professions.
Parsons The New School for Design
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue
BURST*008 designed for MoMA’s “Home Delivery” exhibition by Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier: installation view of construction in the lot to the west of MoMA.
Photograph by Richard Barnes
Through 10.20.08 (Part 1), 10.26.08 (Part 2, outdoor component)
Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
This exhibition offers an examination of significance of factory-produced architecture from 1833 to today. The history of prefabricated housing includes some 60 projects represented by drawings, ephemera, models, photographs, patent applications, films, computer animations, and partially assembled full-scale houses, as well as four new commissions of wall fragments that could be used in designing prefabricated buildings. In the outdoor space to the west of the museum, five contemporary architectural firms, KieranTimberlake Architects, Oskar Leo Kaufmann and Albert Rüf, Lawrence Sass, Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier, and Richard Horden, Lydia Haack and John Höpfner, display full-scale, prefabricated houses.
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street