Tag Exhibitions

27-05-2022

Design and football in one exhibition at the Design Museum in London

From 8 April to 29 August, London’s Design Museum is playing host to an exhibition entitled ‘Football: Designing the Beautiful Game’. This is the largest exhibition ever held on the subject, a loving tribute to the world’s most popular sport which showcases the creativity that has pushed the game to its technical, emotional and economic limits - and beyond.

26-05-2022

The handmade art of Simone Leigh

It is no coincidence that the American artist who took home the coveted Golden Lion at the 59th Venice Biennale makes all her pieces out of stoneware and clay, including her models for bronze casts. Her primary source of inspiration is the Black female body, translated into a figurative universe of sculptures and installations to which the entire United States Pavilion is dedicated.

16-05-2022

Lorenzo Marini: “My free (and peaceful) letters take over the Olivetti Building”

The artist who restored the identity and colour of the letters of the alphabet opens the Olivettype exhibition in Ivrea with a corpus of thirty-six artworks, many of which have never been exhibited before, and a colourful qwerty keyboard as tall as a man. The setting is the monumental Palazzo Uffici Olivetti, the Olivetti office building in Ivrea, constructed in 1964 as part of an industrial complex that is now a Unesco World Heritage Site.

05-05-2022

The Vienna Secession and the spirit of design

An exhibition in Piacenza looks at the figure of Gustav Klimt, in the context of the times, cultural ties and legacy of the great artist, the first president of the Secession movement founded in Vienna in 1897. The movement had countless repercussions for the applied arts, a number of representative examples of which appear in the exhibition.

20-04-2022

Whitney Biennial 2022, Quiet as It’s Kept

Under the title Quiet as It's Kept, the 2022 Whitney Biennial exhibits an intergenerational, interdisciplinary group of sixty-three artists and collectives whose dynamic works reflect the challenges, complexity and possibilities of the American artistic experience today. All between April 6 and September 5 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, designed by architect Renzo Piano and located between the High Line and the Hudson River in New York.

18-04-2022

"Nature – Mario Botta Sacro e Profano" exhibition at the MAXXI in Rome

In Rome, at the MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Art, the seventh edition of the Nature exhibition cycle is currently underway. The protagonist of the new appointment is architect Mario Botta who, for the occasion, has designed a site-specific installation evocative of the forms, materials and essence of his architectures.

08-04-2022

"Plastic: Remaking Our World" exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum

Loved/hated, plastic is a revolutionary, consumerist and deeply controversial material. The exhibition inaugurated at the end of March and curated by the Vitra Design Museum, the V&A Dundee and the maat Museum in Lisbon narrates every facet of its story, starting from the great diffusion and rise of plastic in the 20th century, to pop and colourful contemporary projects, and shifting to the problems related to the environmental impact of this material, to arrive at the latest avant-garde solutions for a more sustainable use of plastic and to bioplastics produced with algae and mycelium.

05-04-2022

Triennale Milano, between new exhibitions and installations

From April 1, two new installations designed by two important masters of architecture, which have recently become part of the permanent collection of the Milanese institution, are on display in the Triennale Milano gardens, named after Giancarlo De Carlo: "Meuble Plus", a project for the support of refugees conceived by Yona Friedman and "Grande Milano", the chair designed by Italian architect Aldo Rossi in a 7:1 scale.