Nowhere / Now / Here, contemplating the work of a machine. Review by Vito Campanelli.
Nowhere / Now / Here is an exhibition organized by LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial of Gijón: 78 works by 67 artists from 20 countries, exhibited till the end of April. The exhibition, curated by the Spanish designers Roberto Feo and Rosario Hurtado, walks the line between art and design, only to discover that that line doesn't exist anymore: it vanished, creating opportunities to find new ways to recount the ever-changing contemporary reality and shape the future. The three thematic areas (Material Intervention, Psychological Exploration and Cultural Resistance) highlight three areas of research and provide a useful map for trying to understand the main threads of contemporary design. The curators have chosen to shun fixed categories, arguing that they are simply a marketing device, so the exhibition area contains artworks made with the most disparate media and approaches: from the azulejos of the Portuguese designers Pedrita to the virtual reality of British designer Marc Owens. Feo and Hurtado, by exhibiting works they feel an affinity to, have been able to encourage a union between these works. This has been augmented through showing works in small groups with attached identity tags (for example: solitude, memento, symbiosis, expansion, absence, fiction, etc.) that although seeming somewhat arbitrary, represent a natural way to inspire discussion of different approaches to design. The feeling that the artworks are dialectically citing one another is also promoted through their method of arrangement. To read more visit Neural.it http://www.neural.it/art/2009/01/nowhere_now_here_contemplating.phtml _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
