| Diary editor: Riya Patel | riya@icon-magazine.co.uk | ||
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| Learning to Dwell: Adolf Loos in the Czech Lands | The Then-Now Show | Kim Beom: Animalia |
| RIBA, London | Aram Gallery, London | The Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theatre, Los Angeles |
| Until 20 July 2011 | Until 24 April 2011 | 22 April 2011 – 19 June 2011 |
| Czech architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933) laid the groundwork for modernism by repudiating exterior ornament in his polemics and introducing new theories in domestic space planning. Designs for private residences in Prague, Pilsen and Loos' hometown Brno are on show at the RIBA this month, along with original furniture and glassware previously unseen in Britain. www.architecture.com | From 1988 until 1992, designer Zeev Aram hosted graduate exhibitions to promote the work of young designers. Clearly it worked. 20 years on, many have established successful careers, including Konstantin Grcic and Adam Brinkworth (whose 2011 work Sterling Chair is pictured). For Then-Now, Aram has picked 15 designers to display a contemporary work alongside one from their graduate exhibitions. We're looking forward to seeing what these juxtapositions reveal as well as the chance to admire Aram's eye for talent. www.thearamgallery.org | Seoul-based artist Kim Beom makes absurdist sculptural tableaux that question perception, reality and psychology. His 2010 work Objects Being Taught They Are Nothing But Tools (pictured) sees an array of everyday things sitting on miniature chairs facing a blackboard: a fun illusion of objects animated with human traits. For CalArts, Beom brings us more object-based installations to delight and provoke, along with a supporting collection of drawings, books and videos. www.redcat.org |
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| The Everyday | Milan Furniture Fair | Herbert Lachmayer |
| Marsden Woo Gallery, London | Milan Fairgrounds, Rho | Royal College of Art, London |
| Until 30 April 2011 | 12-17 April 2011 | 5 April 2011 |
| Illustrator Rachel Figueira, product designer Jon Harrison and printmaker Nick Mobbs have been exploring the strangeness of the everyday for this exhibition at the Marsden Woo Project Space. Figueira's 2010 work Philia, Mania, Phobia imagines objects altered by people's obsessions, Mobbs shows screenprints inspired by dens and lairs and Harrison's "double product" experimentation sees an umbrella stand conveniently married up with a door wedge. www.marsdenwoo.com | It's time for the show. Milan Furniture Fair turns 50 this year and there's an abundance of festivities to get involved in. To help coordinate those crucial networking opportunities, get the most from the city's events and installations and navigate the vast exhibition complex, there's a Saloni phone application that gives information on exhibiting companies as well as real-time updates on traffic and travel news. How handy. For our full fair preview, see Icon 095, out next month. www.cosmit.it | The RCA is finishing its current run of lectures with a visit from Herbert Lachmayer, founder of Vienna's Da Ponte Institute and professor at the University of Art and Design, Linz. The Sidestepping Architecture series has so far featured speakers that "step out of the norm", including Wayne Hemingway and Thomas Heatherwick. Lachmayer will be in conversation with the RCA's head of architecture, Nigel Coates, to discuss his life, work and cross-disciplinary career. www.rca.ac.uk |
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| The Luminous Interval | Martino Gamper | Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War |
| Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao | California College of the Arts, San Francisco | Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal |
| 12 April – 11 September 2011 | 20 April 2011 | 12 April 2011 – 5 September 2011 |
| Athens-based patron of the arts Dimitris Daskalopoulos has amassed one of the world's most extensive private art collections. In April the Guggenheim will show the first large-scale presentation of this collection, featuring work from Louise Bourgeois, Wade Guyton and Kelly Walker (pictured) and Annette Messager. This mammoth exhibition focuses on installations and sculptures as well as film and video, to create what looks set to be a truly immersive experience. www.guggenheim-bilbao.es | Maker of "funny shaped furniture" Martino Gamper appears at the California College of the Arts as part of its Design and Craft Lecture series. His idiosyncratic designs have seen him make 100 chairs in 100 days (Icon 045) as well as curate food nights where he designs both the setting and the food (Icon 059). A chance to see this versatile and entertaining designer speak in public is not one to be missed. www.cca.edu | Architect and historian Jean-Louis Cohen curates an exhibition chronicling modernist architecture built during the Second World War. Rather than produce a lull in building activity, the war actually necessitated the urgent construction of many utilitarian structures: the kind that delighted modernists and helped the aesthetic gain wider acceptance, according to Cohen. A vast array of material shows a side of modernism we rarely see. www.cca.qc.ca |
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