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Cultural highlights
The Value
of Good Design
MoMA, New York
10 February – 15 June 2019
La Triennale
di Milano
Stanley Kubrick:
The Exhibition
Parco Sempione, Milan
1 March – 1 September 2019
Design Museum, London
26 April – 15 September 2019
by Francesca Gregson
This spring, Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art stages an exhibition that looks
at how design can enhance everyday life, from domestic furnishings and appliances
through to sporting goods and graphics. The show explores the democratising
potential of design, beginning with well-designed, affordable products
representing MoMA’s mid-century Good Design initiatives, such as the
mass-market Italian Fiat Cinquecento car. These museological examples are
joined by a strong collection of iconic design items made in the US, including
the celebrated Eames La Chaise.
The theme for the 22nd edition of La Triennale di Milano is Broken Nature:
Design Takes on Human Survival, highlighting the concept of restorative design
and how humans connect to nature. A thematic exhibition and 22 installations from
international participants are supported by a programme of events tackling the issue
of correcting humanity’s self-destructive course. Molteni&C is technical sponsor
of the Triennale, furnishing the cafeteria with Norma, a custom-made chair designed
by Giulio Iacchetti, and D.270.2 rattan lounge chairs designed by Gio Ponti.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, a new museum is opening
in the design school’s founding city of Wiemar. The Bauhaus Museum Weimar
is centred around the oldest collection of Bauhaus objects in the world. Designed
by architect Heike Hanada, the minimalistic concrete cube contains five levels that
converge in two-storied open spaces. Guided by the question “How do we want
to coexist?”, the museum demonstrates how the Bauhaus ought to be understood
as a process for change, rather than simply a twentieth-century design style.
Bauhaus Museum
Weimar
Weimar
Opening 6 April 2019
London’s Design Museum will present an exhibition about renowned film director
Stanley Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition will demonstrate its subject’s
fascination with architecture and design through the use of film props, costumes,
set models and photographs. Visitors will relive iconic scenes from films including
A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999), while
the exhibition also explores Kubrick’s interest in England, particularly London,
and how this is referenced in his films.
Christien Meindertsma:
Everything Connects
Art Institute Chicago
21 March – 20 October 2019
Christien Meindertsma: Everything Connects showcases two of the Dutch designer’s
recent projects that encourage us to reconsider undervalued materials in order
to address the overconsumption of resources. Flax Project shows each step involved
in transforming raw flax into an entirely biodegradable chair. Meanwhile,
Fibre Market saw Meindertsma scan 1,000 wool sweaters to reveal that clothing
is often made from a wider range of materials than is listed on their labels.
The sweaters were then shredded and made into a recycled fabric.
Louvre, Paris
24 October 2019 – 24 February 2020
To mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death, the Louvre will
display the largest collection of his paintings in the world, alongside a wide array
of drawings. This retrospective will illustrate how da Vinci placed the utmost
importance on painting and his investigation of the world, which he referred
to as “the science of painting”. The exhibition is the culmination of more than
10 years work, including new scientific examinations of da Vinci’s work and
ongoing conservation of the Louvre’s paintings. For Milan Design Week 2019,
UniFor will present a multimedia installation curated by Ron Gilad at Palazzo
di Brera, home to many of Da Vinci’s masterpieces.
Leonardo Da Vinci
