| Diary editor: Riya Patel | riya@icon-magazine.co.uk | ||
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| Frieze Art Fair | Architecture of Fear | Michael Wallraff: Looking Up. Vertical Public Space |
| Regent’s Park, London | z33, Hasselt | MAK Gallery, Vienna |
| 13 – 16 October 2011 | 2 October 2011 – 31 December 2011 | 5 October 2011 – 4 March 2012 |
| This year’s Frieze Art Fair will be accompanied by film screenings, music, talks and eight site-specific projects, which will transform London’s Regent’s Park into a hub of artistic activity for three days. Dutch duo Bik Van der Pol (who last year filled a replica of the Farnsworth House in Illinois with live butterflies for the MACRO museum in Rome) will be creating a “live scoreboard” inspired by the architecture of Cedric Price. www.friezeartfair.com | Belgium’s z33 brings us the Architecture of Fear this month. The art and design exhibition takes the stance that fear has become a constant feeling that pervades our daily lives, rather than an immediate emotional response to threats such as terrorism or financial crisis. Using works that explore the “emotional, social and spatial mechanisms” of fear in society, the exhibition comments on how the design of global infrastructure is becoming increasingly shaped by factors of security and risk management. www.z33.be | Austrian-born architect Michael Wallraff has created an extensive installation that examines public space in the vertical dimension, as a special commission by the MAK Gallery. Wallraff’s previous research project, VertiCity, imagined a “spongy porous tower structure” that knits together the apartment towers of Mies van der Rohe’s Lake Shore Drive. The sponge’s holes provide much-needed places for public interaction in a densely populated city centre. www.mak.at |
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| Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 | Pipilotti Rist | California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way |
| Royal Academy of Arts, London | Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA |
| 29 October 2011 – 22 January 2012 | Until 8 January 2012 | 1 October 2011 – 25 March 2012 |
| Russian avant-garde architecture is the subject of an exhibition at the Royal Academy, which examines a brief, intense period of design that took place during the early 20th century. Large-scale photographs of buildings by Konstantin Melnikov, Moisei Ginzburg and others will be displayed alongside constructivist drawings such as El Lissitzky’s sketch for Proun 6B (pictured), demonstrating the synthesis between art and architecture encouraged by the Soviet state. www.royalacademy.org.uk | The Hayward Gallery hosts a solo exhibition this month by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, whose video of supersized floating body parts Extremities (1999) we last saw at the 2009 Hayward group show, Walking In My Mind. Known for fusing images, music and text to create works, Rist presents in her latest exhibition more than 30 “playful, psychedelic and sensuous” multimedia installations drawn from throughout her career. www.southbankcentre.co.uk | LACMA has gathered more than 350 objects for an exhibition that tells the story of mid-century modernism in California. Featuring works by Richard Neutra, Rudolf Schindler and furniture displayed in full-scale interiors, the show explains how technology, progressive design ideals and the stimulus spending of the New Deal contributed to a distinctive “California look”. The show is part of a wider network of exhibitions titled Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980. www.lacma.org |
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| Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec | EXD’11/Lisboa | Tokyo Designers Week 2011 |
| Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz | Various venues, Lisbon | Meiji Jingu Gaien Kaigakan Mae Ground, Tokyo |
| 7 October 2011 – 30 July 2012 | Until 27 November 2011 | 27-30 October 2011 and 3-6 November 2011 |
| From October, Centre Pompidou-Metz will dedicate 1,000sq m of gallery space to the first major retrospective of French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Since their partnership began in 1999, the Bouroullecs – best known for creating the Vegetal chair for Vitra and Clouds for Kvadrat (both 2009) – have worked with some of the industry’s biggest names. The show will also feature the pair’s more experimental projects, such as the Liane lights for Galerie Kreo in 2010. www.centrepompidou-metz.fr | “Useless” is the theme of the 2011 Lisbon Design Biennale, which attempts to interrogate the idea from a design perspective through exhibitions, talks and events. Questions include: “Why is being useless so politically and socially incorrect?” and “Is there a value to time spent doing nothing?” We’ll be looking for answers in Joseph Grima’s exhibition of infrastructural failures and Emily King’s Sidelines, a series of pointless collections including album covers, nail polish and sticks. www.experimentadesign.pt | As creative director of this year’s Tokyo Designers Week, Florian Busch Architects promise density, dialogues and a focus on the recent disasters. The two-part event will showcase the latest in design, but also invite participation from visitors through organized workshops and forums. It’s even up to visitors to decide the Designer of the Year, a prize which last year was awarded to Thomas Heatherwick. www.tdwa.com |
This month a major retrospective of work by the Bouroullec brothers opens at the Centre Pompidou in Metz; the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art dedicates a show to mid-century Californian modernism; Belgium’s z33 explores the architecture of fear, and Frieze Art Fair returns to Regent’s Park.
A major retrospective of postmodernism opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo dedicates a show to 1960s metabolism; jewellery by Picasso, Max Ernst and others is displayed in New York, and the London Design Festival kicks off in various venues around the city.
| Diary editor: Riya Patel | riya@icon-magazine.co.uk | ||
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| Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 – 1990 | Metabolism, the City of the Future | ERRE |
| Victoria and Albert Museum, London | Mori Art Museum, Tokyo | Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz |
| 24 September 2011 – 15 January 2012 | 17 September 2011 – 15 January 2012 | 12 September 2011 – 5 March 2012 |
| The V&A launches a major retrospective on postmodernism that takes a broad look at the contentious cultural movement in all its brash glory. Evolving from an architectural style in the 1970s, postmodernism spread its aesthetic and theoretical influence to everything from photography to sculpture and music video: an explosion of loud fashion, pop colours and bold graphics. www.vam.ac.uk | In the 1960s, modern Japanese architecture found itself in the grip of metabolism – an exciting and revolutionary movement propelled by influential architect Kenzo Tange. Metabolists believed cities and buildings could be designed to act organically, subject to flows of change and growth rather than a fixed plan. Rare drawings, models and archive film footage from the period go on show at MAM this month, as well as 3D graphics that bring to life Tange’s A Plan for Tokyo 1960 and other futuristic visions. www.mori.art.museum | The labyrinth as architectural form and metaphor is the idea behind ERRE, the second major thematic exhibition to be shown at Centre Pompidou-Metz. Taking the labyrinth to be an embodiment of both logic and chaos, the multi-disciplinary group show explores its symbolism in the urban landscape, architecture and contemporary art. Specially commissioned works will be on show alongside pieces by Mona Hatoum, Marcel Duchamp and Thomas Hirschhorn. www.centrepompidou-metz.fr |
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| Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams | Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweller | Walter Pichler |
| San Francisco MoMA, San Francisco | Museum of Arts and Design, New York | MAK Centre, Vienna |
| Until 20 February 2012 | 20 September 2011 – 8 January 2012 | 27 September 2011 – 26 February 2012 |
| “Less but better” is Dieter Rams’ maxim. The German industrial designer is known for turning everyday products into items of cult status with his rigorously modern philosophy. As Braun’s lead designer from 1961 to 1995, he produced over 500 original masterpieces: coffee makers, calculators, radios and AV equipment, as well as the timeless 606 Universal Shelving System for Vitsoe (our Icon of the Month). Some 200 of Rams’ sketches, prototypes and products are on show at SFMoMA this month. www.sfmoma.org | MAD New York is staging an exhibition of jewellery by 135 contemporary artists including Anthony Caro, Yoko Ono, Anish Kapoor and Max Ernst. More than 240 of these wearable sculptures will be on display from 20 September, with the purpose of revealing a more personal and intimate side to artists who are best known for their work in other media. Most of the jewellery pieces were given as personal gifts or created as one-offs, adding to their unique value. www.madmuseum.org | Walter Pichler, the visionary artist whose prolific sketches, objects and installations became a major influence for the radical architecture movement in 1960s Austria, is celebrated at MAK Vienna this month. Pichler, whose works blur the boundary between sculpture and architecture, is best known for futuristic designs such as TV Helmet or Portable Living Room (1967), and sculptures like Bewegliche Figur (1981, pictured), which have inspired architects as diverse as Coop Himmelb(l)au, Morphosis and Arata Isozaki. www.mak.at |
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| London Design Festival | Gwangju Design Biennale | Open House London |
| Various venues, London | Jungoui Park, Gwangju | Various venues, London |
| 17-25 September 2011 | Until 23 October 2011 | 17 and 18 September 2011 |
| This year, London Design Festival will add St Paul’s Cathedral to the impressive list of venues it has built up over nine years of celebrating creativity in the capital. The cathedral’s Geometric Staircase (pictured) will house an optical installation by architect John Pawson. Designer Aamu Song’s REDDRESS sounds pretty spectacular too: a dress made with 550m of fabric that is both costume and performance space. Pick up a copy of the Icon Design Trail for the definitive guide to the week’s highlights. www.londondesignfestival.com | The South Korean city of Gwangju will host its fourth design biennale in September, titled Design is Design is Not Design. It’s a call for artists, designers and architects to go back to basics and question long-established concepts in contemporary design. Artistic co-directors Seung H-Sang and Ai Weiwei’s vision will see 300 works brought together under a range of diverse themes. Icon is looking forward to Urban Follies: ten small-scale architectural works along the path of the old city wall. www.gb.or.kr | Each year, Open House London allows us behind the doors of some of the city’s most unique and exciting architecture. There are more than 700 sites on the list this year, including Allies and Morrison’s cathedral-like industrial pumping station at Abbey Mills and Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s RIBA Award-winning Angel Building. Don’t miss the hidden gem that is 78 South Hill Park (pictured), architect Brian Housden’s eccentric 1960s concrete and glass-brick house filled with original Rietveld furniture. www.londonopenhouse.org |
| Visual Dialogue: Irving Penn and Issey Miyake | ||
| 21 – 21 Design Sight, Tokyo | ||
| 16 September 2011 - 8 April 2012 | ||
| In the book Irving Penn Regards the Work of Issey Miyake (1999), the renowned Japanese fashion designer claimed: "Penn's photographs allow me to see my own designs." Miyake's creative collaboration with American fashion photographer Penn lasted 13 years and now the extraordinary imagery that came out of their partnership can be seen in the exhibition Visual Dialogue at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo. www.2121designsight.jp | ||
| Diary editor: Riya Patel | riya@icon-magazine.co.uk | ||
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| LIVING: Frontiers of Architecture III and IV | Nature/02: West 8 | Maurizio Anzeri |
| Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark | MAXXI, Rome | Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead |
| Until 2 October 2011 | Until 21 August 2011 | Until 2 October 2011 |
| LIVING, an exhibition that looks at the home through an anthropological lens, is the last chapter in the Louisiana Museum’s series of interdisciplinary investigations around architecture. Focusing on the concept of the home and its meaning in different sociological and geographic contexts, it takes us from European gypsy communities to Indian cyber cafes in an attempt to explore new modes of living. www.louisiana.dk | This year, Rome’s MAXXI museum is holding a cycle of monographic exhibitions under the theme Nature, timed to coincide with the seasons. West 8, the Rotterdam-based landscape design and architecture collective, brings us the summer stint: a selection of projects that it believes describe “nature recreated”. Images from projects such as the Botanic Bridge for Gwangju (2001, pictured) will be on show in a specially designed space called The Stolen Paradise. www.fondazionemaxxi.it | The Baltic presents an exhibition of work by Maurizio Anzeri, the Italian artist best known for his series of embroidered portraits made from photographs found in flea markets. Anzeri transforms found photographs of unknown people from the 1930s and 40s by stitching and sewing directly on to them. Some 25 portraits will be on display along with several pedestal-mounted sculptures that incorporate braids of woven hair. www.balticmill.com |
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| At Home in Japan: Beyond the Minimal House | New Olds: Design Between Tradition and Innovation | Industrious Artefacts |
| Geffrye Museum, London | Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel | BZuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen, Netherlands |
| Until 29 August 2011 | Until 10 September 2011 | Until 12 February 2012 |
| Japanese houses are widely regarded as the epitome of refined style, clean lines and unabashed minimalism. But could it all be a myth? At Home in Japan sets out to give the real picture of everyday domestic life, putting decorations, possessions and people in the frame, too. Laid out as a typical Japanese home, the exhibition features Susan Andrews’ project-specific photography of 30 urban homes in the Kansai region. www.geffrye-museum.org.uk | The stuff of everyday domestic life is the inspiration behind DMH’s exhibition New Olds. Cross-stitched cushions, cuckoo clocks and oriental rugs are some of the 70 objects that have been reinterpreted by a range of exciting young designers, who use old motifs to new effect. Our favourites are Mono Thone (2010) – Martino Gamper’s mash-up of a Thonet chair with a plastic garden seat – and Pini Leibovich’s Happy Material Armchair (2005, pictured), which reminds us of a deep pile bathmat. www.dmh.org.il | Dutch designers Jurgen Bey and Rianne Makkink are curating Industrious Artefacts – a look at the evolution of crafts and industry in the Netherlands’ Zuiderzee area. Items from the museum’s historic collection are interspersed with contemporary objects that reflect the area’s current design culture. Look out for work by Eindhoven-based Studio FormaFantasma, Lucas Van Vugt’s collection of figurines made from animal bones and Merel Karhof’s Wind Knitting Factory (pictured). www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl |
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| Both Sides and the Centre | Jason Payne/Hirsuta: Rawhide | Venice Art Biennale |
| MAK Centre, Los Angeles | SCI-Arc Gallery, Los Angeles | Various venues, Venice |
| 19-21 August 2011 | Until 11 September 2011 | Until 27 November 2011 |
| LA’s MAK centre is asking writers for their interpretation of the iconic Schindler House in West Hollywood, in an experimental literary festival organised with Les Figues Press. Using dance and video art in conjunction with writing, the contributions will explore divisions between private domestic space and the public realm, the blurring of interior and exterior spaces and the kind of architectural conditions that propagate voyeurism. www.mak.at | Jason Payne, founder of experimental LA architecture practice Hirsuta, designs buildings with “hides”, conceiving exteriors that go beyond the “architectural skin” metaphor to take on a more luscious, textured and even hairy appearance. SCI-Arc is exhibiting Hirsuta’s Raspberry Fields project (pictured): a residential building in northern Utah covered with slender shingles that curl up when weathered, like the ruffled feathers of a bird. www.sciarc.edu | The 54th Venice Art Biennale is titled ILLUMInations and features 83 international artists, alongside 89 national pavilions and many satellite events around the city. We look forward to seeing Steve Shearer’s 9m-high freestanding mural for the Canadian Pavilion, Mike Nelson’s disorienting British pavilion named I, Impostor, and Greek artist Diohandi’s Beyond Reform, a site-specific installation with a byzantine facade, encased in an outer shell that cracks and splits over time. www.labiennale.org |
| Diary editor: Riya Patel | riya@icon-magazine.co.uk | ||
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| Talk to Me | Serpentine Gallery Pavilion | Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York | Serpentine Gallery, London | Design Museum, London |
| 24 July 2011 – 7 November 2011 | 1 July 2011 – 16 October 2011 | 20 July 2011 – 30 October 2011 |
| MoMA's summer exhibition explores the dialogue between people and things. It proposes that the digital age has created a need for designers not only to provide function and form, but also an interface for communication. Talk to Me brings together 800 practical and conceptual pieces that range from video games and websites to installations and environments. www.moma.org | Peter Zumthor will follow in the footsteps of SANAA, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and others, when his summer pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery opens this month. The Swiss architect proposes a "hortus conclusus", or enclosed garden, hidden at the centre of a timber structure shrouded with a coat of black paste. In typical Zumthor style, the architecture promises to be serene and introverted, "a place abstracted from the world of noise and traffic and the smells of London". www.serpentinegallery.org | Kenneth Grange, the designer responsible for the Kodak Instamatic camera, the Kenwood food mixers and the Parker pen, is celebrated by the Design Museum this month. One of Britain's true design legends, in the course of his extraordinary career he has been a technical illustrator for the Royal Engineers, established the world-renowned consultancy Pentagram and developed the futuristic profile of the High Speed Intercity 125 train. Grange shares his Five Most Wanted with Icon on page 022. www.designmuseum.org |
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| Design Parade 6 | Numen/For Use | New Designers |
| Villa Noailles, Hyères | z33, Hasselt | Business Design Centre, London |
| 1-3 July 2011 | 3 July 2011 – 2 October 2011 | 29 June 2011 – 2 July 2011 and 6-9 July 2011 |
| Villa Noailles, an early modernist house on the Côte d'Azur frequented in its heyday by artists such as Man Ray and Alberto Giacometti, will host Design Parade 6: an annual showcase of ten designers selected from an open competition. Alongside the main show, there's an exhibition on the history of the house and last year's winner François Dumas will be showing a series of sculptural vases (pictured) that he developed during his research scholarship at the Sèvres ceramic museum in Paris. www.villanoailles-hyeres.com | Numen/For Use is the Austrian-Croatian design collective behind Tape: the glowing, cocoon-like installation of translucent packing tape that appeared at DMY Berlin last year. This month they're in the Belgian city of Hasselt, using flexible nets to form a "floating landscape open for visitors to climb in and explore". Ranging from set design to products and art, their projects make reference to organic architecture and urban utopias, as well as being immersive and playful experiences. www.z33.be | This vibrant two-part event is a good opportunity to check out the latest offerings from UK graduates in the fields of furniture, architecture, fashion and interior design. Look out for the bright graphics of Stone and Spear (aka Simon Cook), whose punchy illustrations are influenced by nightclub flyers (pictured). There'll be a programme of talks, too, and the exhibition One Year On, a selection of 50 fledgling design businesses that have launched in the past year. www.newdesigners.com |
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| Atsuko Tanaka | A Lasting Impression: Wilhelm Wagenfeld | Alexander Brodsky |
| Ikon Gallery, Birmingham | Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau | Architekturzentrum, Vienna |
| 27 July 2011 – 11 September 2011 | Until 30 October 2011 | Until 3 October 2011 |
| Pioneering Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka is famed for her Electric Dress: a spectacular costume of coloured lamps and cables made for an exhibition of the avant-garde Gutai group in 1956. Tanaka wore the piece to describe friction between tradition and technology in post-war Japan – an updated kimono for the modern world. Ikon Gallery presents the first UK retrospective of the artist's work, along with her paper collages, work on fabric and bold colourful paintings. www.ikon-gallery.co.uk | Best known for the Bauhaus lamp, German industrial designer Wilhelm Wagenfeld's legacy is celebrated at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation this month. Wagenfeld, unlike the majority of former Bauhaus students, went on to have a successful commercial career, designing Kubus glass containers for Lausitzer Glassworks in 1938, diabolo-shaped salt and pepper shakers for WMF and the Wagenfeld tea service (pictured)for Glaswerk Schott & Gen in 1932. www.bauhaus-dessau.de | Russian-born architect Alexander Brodsky rejects the "kitsch oligarch's palaces", "prefabricated high-rises" and "buildings modelled on Western standards" that he says form the landscape of his native country. Through art and architecture, he searches for a particularly Russian identity, and was a proponent of the radical Paper Architects group in the 1980s. See Brodsky's site-specific installation and a selection of his work at the Architekturzentrum until October. www.azw.at |
This month, the vorticists are set to dazzle at Tate Britain, Design Miami/Basel kicks off in Switzerland and MOMA exports its Young Architects Programme to Italy.
| Diary editor: Riya Patel | riya@icon-magazine.co.uk | ||
| Elmgreen & Dragset at Submarine Wharf | Clerkenwell Design Week | Monica Ali on 19 Princelet Street, the Museum of Immigration |
| Rotterdam Harbour, Rotterdam | Various venues, London | Geological Society, London |
| 28 May 2011 – 25 September 2011 | 24-26 May 2011 | 16 May 2011 |
| Visual artists Elmgreen & Dragset will create an installation for Rotterdam's Submarine Wharf this summer, commissioned by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Although the duo's plans for the 5,000sq m industrial space remain under wraps, if it's anywhere near as dramatic as Short Cut (2003), a camper trailer crashed into the mosaic floor of Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, or 2005's Prada boutique stranded in the Texan desert, they will have our undivided attention. www.boijmans.nl | Once again, the streets and squares of London's design district will come alive for the annual three-day festival, with exhibitions by emerging and established talents as well as talks, live entertainment and parties. Our tip is to check out the inflatable music installation by Plastique Fantastique that will be popping up on St John's Square. For Icon's highlights, see our Clerkenwell preview (page 097). www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com | Author Monica Ali will highlight the plight of the under-funded Museum of Immigration as part of the lecture series, Critic's Choice: London's Most Important Building, for the Royal Academy. The little-known 18th-century building in Spitalfields is a former Huguenot silk weaver's home with a Victorian synagogue in the garden. Today it serves as a fascinating architectural document of the cultures that have shaped London over the centuries. www.royalacademy.org.uk |
| Ai Weiwei | Industrial Furniture: Prototypes of the Modern Era | International Contemporary Furniture Fair |
| Lisson Gallery, London | MAK Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna | Javits Convention Centre, New York |
| 13 May 2011 – 16 July 2011 | 25 May 2011 – 30 October 2011 | 14-17 May 2011 |
| We interviewed the persecuted Chinese artist back in our March issue (Icon 093) to examine how the work of his studio, FAKE Design, blurs the boundary between art and architecture. Now the Lisson Gallery presents a show of his smaller-scale work, video and sculptural assemblies, including Coloured Vases (2006, pictured) – a selection of ancient vessels, treated as readymades and dipped in brightly coloured paint. www.lissongallery.com | MAK's curator of furniture and woodworks, Sebastian Hackenschmidt, has trawled the museum's extensive archives to assemble a study collection of industrial furniture dating from the Second World War and before. The furniture is purposefully arranged in a simple and categorical way for contemporary interpretation. Made from standard factory materials such as steel, iron and wooden planks, the functional aesthetic of these objects makes them easily recognisable as forerunners of modern design. www.mak.at | ICFF, North America's answer to the Milan Furniture Fair, takes place this month and there should be plenty to keep avid design fans satisfied. The organisers promise "a global summit of what's best and what's next in design" with over 550 international exhibitors peddling their furniture, lighting and textiles over an enormous 13,500sq m of exhibition space. If you do manage to find your way out, there'll be fringe events to check out too. www.icff.com |
| Collect 2011 | Daniel Buren: Echoes, Work in Situ | Donald Judd The Object is Not Online |
| Saatchi Gallery, London | Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz | David Zwirner Gallery, New York |
| 6-9 May 2011 | From 8 May 2011 | 5 May 2011 – 25 June 2011 |
| This month the Saatchi Gallery will host Collect 2011: a high-calibre art fair that brings together exquisite ceramics, glass, jewellery, textile and metal work from 37 international galleries. Four hundred pieces are on show, including glass sculptures by Tobias Møhl and contemporary jewellery by Sally Collins (pictured). New for this year will be a project space on the Saatchi's second floor – look out for a living wall by ceramicist Rosa Nguyen that evolves throughout the fair. www.craftscouncil.org.uk/collect | The French conceptual artist Daniel Buren is known for transforming architectural spaces with regular stripes of alternating colour. This summer he will take over Shigeru Ban's celebrated Pompidou-Metz (Icon 083) with one of his site-specific works. Last October, Buren created a spectacular installation for Luxembourg's Museum of Modern Art by IM Pei. www.centrepompidou-metz.fr | In 1989, American artist Donald Judd (1928-94) held a seminal exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden, Germany. Twelve room-sized boxes, each subdivided with planes of coloured metal or plastic, formed the basis of the display: stark minimalist works that conveyed his methodological approach to proportions. In May, David Zwirner will reprise these works to promote the legacy of this influential artist – a rare chance to see the installation as originally intended. www.davidzwirner.com |
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