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Design Real
Opens: 26/11/2009 Closes: 07/02/2010
Serpentine Gallery, London
Practicality is the key word for this contemporary design exhibition, which offers a welcome palette-cleanser following the 'design art' fad of recent times. Functionalist German designer Konstantin Grcic curates a display of usable, mass-produced items that demonstrate the brilliance of objects designed for life.
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Time Out“Grcic prefers to pose questions in the most suavely provocative terms...” The wonder is that these lucky objects have been plucked from millions of other possible examples. Grcic's gallery presentation is brilliantly economic, revealing design to be as marvellous and mysterious as it is all-pervasive...
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The Telegraph“You’ll find yourself discussing what you see for weeks to come...” The object you see on the gallery wall and floor may be elegant or hideous, but invariably it opens a door to an unseen world of technological innovation, social history, altruism, invention, futurology, and science that lies behind it...
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Guardian“In one sense, this is a delightful conceit...” The show encourages us to regard this assortment of objects as works of art – provocative, disturbing, exquisite and unexpected. Does it succeed? I think yes...
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The Independent“Objects are well spaced and well displayed, often humorously so...” That is the purpose of this rather delightful show; to make us reflect upon the nature of objects that are designed for our use, to speculate upon whether they are good or bad, ergonomically sound or otherwise, good for the world or not...
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this is london“Makes the everyday inspiringly strange...” It is like those Magritte paintings where objects are deliberately mis-labelled, except that here the weird object calling itself a BROOM is precisely that. So I'd recommend a trip to this bonsai version of a Museum of Applied Arts...
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The Times“The craft and beauty of even the prosaic are unexpectedly brilliant...” Objects are displayed on pedestals, in frames or directly on the walls or floor. That’s it. No formal labels. No explanatory text. Just a curt “tent”, “shears”, “carafe”...
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