{"id":1227,"date":"2010-08-05T10:54:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T16:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2010-08-05T10:56:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T16:56:05","slug":"european-design-exhibition-coming-to-milwaukee-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2010\/08\/european-design-exhibition-coming-to-milwaukee-art-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"European Design Exhibition Coming To Milwaukee Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press contacts:
\nKristin Settle\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n414\/224-3246\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\nkristin.settle@mam.org<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vicki Scharfberg
\n414\/224-3243
\nvicki.scharfberg@mam.org<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

EUROPEAN DESIGN EXHIBITION COMING TO MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
\n<\/strong>Artful question of form vs. function to be pondered October 9, 2010\u2013January 9, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n

Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 August 5, 2010<\/strong> \u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s newest feature exhibition, European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century<\/em>, opens October 9, 2010. It is the first encompassing, critical assessment of contemporary Western European design from 1985 to 2005.<\/p>\n

European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century<\/em> will present more than 250 seminal works including furniture, ceramics, metalwork, glass and product design that reveal the extraordinary creativity of 118 European designers. The exhibition defines Europe\u2019s central role in driving design\u2019s proliferation during the 1980s and 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThis exhibition reminds us that great art is present in our lives every day. European Design Since 1985<\/em> makes art accessible,\u201d said Mel Buchanan, Mae E. Demmer Assistant Curator of 20th-century Design. \u201cWhether it is a light fixture, a vase, a chair, a vacuum, or a knife and fork, it is not just an object. These are useful and beautiful artworks that express ideas and opinions and sometimes genius.\u201d<\/p>\n

European Design Since 1985<\/em> features multiple works by the most influential figures of the period\u2019s \u201colder generation,\u201d such as Ron Arad and Philippe Starck, who have attained the status of design masters. The exhibition also presents a younger generation of designers for the first time, such as Tord Boontje, Maarten Baas, and Hella Jongerius.<\/p>\n

The exhibition and catalogue divide designs into two major movements, those that continue a \u201cPostmodern\u201d attitude and those that renew a \u201cModern\u201d tradition. The two camps exemplify an ongoing dispute: what is the leading design principle, artistic concept or function?<\/p>\n

The first theme explores the continuation of early 1980s Postmodernism, when designers opened up the parameters of high design.\u00a0 Eschewing reason, their objects can be purely conceptual, highly decorative, historicizing, or even kitschy. These designers embraced handcraft, conceptual art, and ornament.
\nOn the other hand, the second theme explores a rational tendency that concurrently swept across Europe. To designers with a Modernist spirit, like the \u201cform follows function\u201d school of the 1920s Bauhaus, good design comes from the integration of use, materials, and process. Their designs are usually for mass-production, but can look spare and refined, or curving like natural forms.
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\u201cThis exhibition is friendly, colorful, and whimsical,\u201d said Buchanan. \u201cEuropean Design Since 1985<\/em> offers a fantastic variety of objects that blur the line between fine art, craft, and design. It might differ with what some define as fine art, but you can also argue that many of these chairs and lamps are as conceptual as a bronze sculpture or abstract painting.\u201d<\/p>\n

European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century<\/em> is organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Denver Art Museum in conjunction with Kingston University, London. It is curated by R. Craig Miller of the Indianapolis Museum of Art and coordinated at the Milwaukee Art Museum by Mel Buchanan, assistant curator of 20th Century design.<\/p>\n

EXHIBITION SPONSORS<\/strong>
\nEuropean Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century<\/em> is sponsored by the Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s Friends of Art.<\/p>\n

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE<\/strong>
\nEuropean Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century<\/em>
\nBy R. Craig Miller, Penny Sparke, and Catherine McDermott
\nThis groundbreaking publication is the first critical examination of the dramatic developments in Western European design and explores the most important conceptual and aesthetic movements during the previous two decades. Sumptuously illustrated, European Design Since 1985<\/em> is essential reading for designers, architects, students and anyone interested in the relationship between design and contemporary culture.\u00a0 Hardcover: 272 pages, with 300 color illustrations.
\nHard cover ($65\/58.50 for Members) and soft cover ($45\/40.50 for Members) copies are available in the Museum Store, 414-224-3210 or www.mam.org\/store<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

HOURS AND ADMISSION<\/strong>
\nThe Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Thursdays until 8 p.m. Admission is $12 for adults and $10 for students, seniors and active military, and is free for members and children 12 and under.<\/p>\n

The first Thursday of each month is Target Free First Thursday and admission is free for everyone.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE MUSEUM
\n<\/strong>The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s far-reaching holdings include more than 20,000 works spanning antiquity to the present day. With a history dating back to 1888, the Museum houses a collection with strengths in 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, contemporary art, American decorative arts, and folk and self-taught art. The Museum includes the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion, named by Time magazine as \u201cBest Design of 2001.\u201d For more information, please visit www.mam.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR EUROPEAN DESIGN SINCE 1985: SHAPING THE NEW CENTURY<\/em><\/strong>
\nMembers Opening Reception<\/strong>
\nThurs, Oct. 7, 5:30\u20138 p.m.
\nLecture: 6:15 p.m., with R. Craig Miller
\nLubar Auditorium
\nAppetizers and cash bar<\/p>\n

Member Exhibition Lecture with R. Craig Miller
\n<\/strong>Fri, Oct. 8, 1:30 p.m.
\nLubar Auditorium<\/p>\n

Gallery Talks with the Curator<\/strong>
\nTues, Oct. 12, 1:30 p.m.
\nTues, Nov. 9, 1:30 p.m.
\nTues, Nov. 30, 1:30 p.m.
\nTues, Dec. 14, 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Express Talks<\/strong>
\nThursdays, Oct. 14-Jan 6, Noon<\/p>\n

Gallery Talks in FRENCH with B\u00e9atrice Armstrong, French Institute of Milwaukee<\/strong>
\nSat, Oct. 30, 1:30 p.m.
\nSat, Dec. 4, 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Guest Lecture with Alberto Alessi<\/strong>
\nThurs, Nov. 18, 6:15 p.m.
\nLubar Auditorium<\/p>\n

Book Salon<\/strong>
\nEmotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things<\/em> by Donald Norman
\nSaturday, Nov. 20, 10:30 a.m.
\nBradley Rooms
\nRSVP to Amy Kirschke at 414-224-3826 or amy.kirschke@mam.org<\/a><\/p>\n

MAM After Dark | Under the Table<\/strong>
\nFri, Nov. 19, 5 p.m.\u2013midnight
\nExplore your interactive side, Euro Design-style, with UWM Dance and Digital Media Departments, and local hip-hop duo Lab Experiments.
\nDetails and advance admission at www.mam.org\/afterdark<\/a>.
\n\u00a0
\nFamily Sunday | Holiday by Design<\/strong>
\nSun, Dec. 12, 10 a.m.\u20134 p.m.<\/p>\n

For additional information, images, or interviews, please contact:
\nKristin Settle
\n414\/224-3246
\nkristin.settle@mam.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Press contacts: Kristin Settle\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 414\/224-3246\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 kristin.settle@mam.org\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vicki Scharfberg 414\/224-3243 vicki.scharfberg@mam.org\u00a0 EUROPEAN DESIGN EXHIBITION COMING TO MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM Artful question of form vs. function to be pondered October 9, 2010\u2013January 9, 2011 Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 August 5, 2010 \u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s newest feature exhibition, European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century, … European Design Exhibition Coming To Milwaukee Art Museum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}