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Indepth Arts News:
"Against Design"
2000-02-04 until 2000-04-16
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA,
USA United States of America
This thematic exhibition brings together an international
group of ten younger artists whose work consciously
blurs the boundaries between art, architecture and design,
autonomous sculpture and functional object,
environmental installation and interior décor. These artists
include: Kevin Appel (Los Angeles); Angela Bulloch
(Great Britain); Clay Ketter (Sweden); Roy McMakin
(Los Angeles); Jorge Pardo (Los Angeles); Tobias
Rehberger (Germany); Joe Scanlan (Chicago); Joep van
Lieshout (the Netherlands); Pae White (Los Angeles);
and Andrea Zittel (New York/Los Angeles). The
exhibition draws upon sources in high art, including
Minimalism and formalism, as well as industrial design
from the 1930s-1960s, and architecture from the
1920s-1960s. While the “look” of the work may have its
initial impetus in the clean-lined rationality of Bauhaus
design, it is then injected with unexpected, idiosyncratic,
and improvisatory elements.
This exhibition is made possible by an Emily Hall
Tremaine Exhibition Award.
The Exhibition Award program was founded in 1998 to
honor Emily Hall
Tremaine. It rewards innovation and experimentation
among curators by
supporting thematic exhibitions that challenge
audiences and expand the
boundaries of contemporary art.
Additional support has been generously
provided by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and
the friends and
members of the Institute of Contemporary Art.
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