Design Miami 2018 Curio Exhibitions
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This year’s Design Miami 2018 Curio program featured eleven new presentations that tipped hat to time-honored and traditional design methodologies, tools, and materials. The installations explored historical materials and techniques from Argentina, Korea, TDesign Miami 2018 Curio Exhibitions
This year’s Design Miami 2018 Curio program featured eleven new presentations that tipped hat to time-honored and traditional design methodologies, tools, and materials. The installations explored historical materials and techniques from Argentina, Korea, Transylvania, and more.The Color and the Shape by Calico Wallpaper and Philippe MalouinFor “The Color and the Shape,” Philippe Malouin took inspiration from Henri Matisse’s cutouts and the technique he described as “carving into color.” Malouin used colorful hand-cut forms in eclectic, textured, and oversized materials to transform an expanse of wall space into an interactive surface for collage.Breaking the Mold: Contemporary Korean CeramicsJ. Lohmann Gallery presented the ceramic works of five emerging designers from South Korea working with clay: Sangwoo Kim, Ahryun Lee, Nin Lee, Jongjin Park, and Bae Sejin. The exhibition underscored each designer’s inimitable ornamental language, blending seamlessly centuries-old traditions of Korean ceramics with contemporary colors, expressiveness, and versatility.Kurimanzutto’s “seilla de mexico” by Oscar HagermanOscar Hagerman works in artisan workshops throughout rural Mexico and participates actively with these communities to conserve their ancestral design knowledge. For Curio presentation, the architect and designer brought a selection of chairs based on his classic Arrullo chair from 1969.Cristian Mohaded’s Entrevero CollectionArgentine designer and artist Cristian Mohaded’s Entrevero furniture collection crosses the boundaries between design and art with its axis in the transformation and manipulation of materials through artisanal and industrial techniques from Argentina, as per the press release.The Masters Editions by Giancarlo Valle and Mauro MoriLes Ateliers Courbet presented Giancarlo Valle’s Smile chair and Smile bench, which he developed with revered French upholsterers Domeau & Peres in Paris. Also featured were Mauro Mori’s hand-carved wood and cast bronze consoles, which epitomizes his talent for expressing a contemporary vision using traditional and painstaking sculpture techniques, according to the press release.Harry Nuriev’s The OfficeHarry Nuriev was earlier a clerk in a small Russian bureau. The designer draws comical and sentimental inspiration from his early professional life to subvert and modernize our expectations of the windowless office using the standard props — a chair, desk, single hanger, printer, and wallpaper.SEMANTICS OF THE VOIDS by Roland Gebhardt New York-based Roland Gebhardt is known for furniture that is sculptural, functional, and minimal in its design vocabulary. The artist’s study of the void informs much of his practice.Malcolm James Kutner’s “re:construction”Malcolm James Kutner brought to the fair a transhistorical selection of works from postwar France to the present-day United States in “re:construction.” The display included French Reconstruction furniture by Rene Gabriel, Marcel Gascoin, and Gustave Gautier alongside 2018 ceramic tables Gerard Simoen. Also featured were textiles by Bo Joseph and Laura Kaufman, mirrors by Maureen Fullam and Radisay/Szarek, and a site-specific intervention by Aleksandar Duravcevic.Martina Simeti’s The Corner Piece N° 2The Corner Piece N° 2 curated by Ligia Dias brought together conceptual and craft practices — a series of colorful concrete stools by Max Bill, a tiny and precious everyday tool by Valentin Carron, Johanna Dahm’s destructive take on a Swiss icon, enhanced versions of ordinary objects by Ligia Dias, a playful fork by Bruno Munari, a sugar cube as adornment by Meret Oppenheim, and silver hangers by Bernhard Schobinger.Liabilities’ by Nadja ZerunianNadja Zerunian creates forms out of copper and gold and places them in conversation with one another. “Liabilities” portrayed one hundred scenarios, exploring human interactions, attachments, and bonds. The series of objects were produced with traditional Transylvanian Roma artisans who use archaic methods and tools to this day.Walt Disney Studio Designs by Kem WeberPeter Blake Gallery presented historic designs created by Kem Weber for the Walt Disney Studio animation offices in Burbank, California. One of the highlights was the rare and iconic Airline armchair. As per the press release, the chair is the realization of Weber’s career-long goal to achieve a wholly American form of modern design and was named with a nod to the technological triumph of the day: commercial aviation.Design Miami’s Curio program, which originated in 2014, has been the stage for launching experimental and innovative new projects, including MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab and Tom Sachs’s first international furniture pieces, both presented at Design Miami/ 2017. In 2016, Virgil Abloh presented the Curio A Series of Off-White™, a special furniture commission by the designer.Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the installations. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more