Taipei Fine Arts Museum presents DESTROY DESIGN – Modern Living, an exhibition on view 14 July–9 September 2012.
DESTRoY DESIGN – Modern Living consists of 10 chapters: Destroy, Interiors, Arte Povera, Wooden Sculpture, Italian Techno, Classics, Flexible/Modules, Objects, Droog Design, Glass. It features over 100 artworks produced by 45 international artists and designers over the last 40 years, which all belong to the collection of FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais.
This show includes Et la chambre orange (And the orange bedroom), the large-scale installation by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Untitled (Infinity Pan), a glass work by Rirkrit Tiravanija and The Djinn chair by Olivier Mourgue, renowned furniture used in the science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. This is the first presentation in Asia and the exhibition venue is specifically designed for this project.
DESTRØY DESIGN – Modern Living purports to offer an analysis of this unique approach of two different but related fields: the exhibition concentrates on the complex relationship between the consumption-based star-status of contemporary designers and artists, and questions the constantly changing position and importance of the object in today’s industrialized world.
It also investigates the exclusive quality of art works and the functionality of design objects—often with a sense of humour as when the artists included in the exhibition comment, destroy, recreate, or question famous design objects. In several instances the limits between artwork and utility item seem to be erased, and the notions about many of the utility items will be turned upside down.
Having combined various contexts from modern art to contemporary ideologies, the artworks to be exhibited will unveil how design and art have interpreted, influenced, and co-existed in our way of life today in many layers. Unlike the word ‘contemporary,’ the word ‘modern’ carries extra significance, embracing the complexity of modernism, post-modernism, and novel trends. All creators have specific personal approaches on what we could define as ‘modern living.’
Participant artists include: Barbara Visser, Angela de la Cruz, Gabriel Sierra, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Walead Besthy, Rosemarie Trockel, François Hers, Konstantin Grcic, Marc Newson, Liam Gillick, Achille Castiglioni, Ettore Sottsass, Andrée Putman, Verner Panton, Olivier Mourgue, Nemo, Martin Szekely, Maarten van Severen, Joe Colombo, Claude Courtecuisse, Matali Crasset, Denis Santachiara, Jurgen Bey, Joris Laarman, Tord Boontje, Hella Jongerius, Marcel Wanders, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Tobias Rehberger amongst others.
Opening events at Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Lecture on Sat, 14 July, 14:30–16:30 (Free)
Panellists: Hilde Teerlinck, Director at FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Curator of DESTRØY DESIGN – Modern Living.
Sayoko Nakahara, H+F Curatorial Grant at FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Assistant Curator of DESTRØY DESIGN – Modern Living.
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