{"id":1848,"date":"2010-10-06T15:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T21:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2010-10-07T11:54:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T17:54:59","slug":"euro_opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2010\/10\/euro_opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Art Museum Opens New Exhibition on European Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press Contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kristin Settle
\n414-224-3246
\nKristin.Settle@mam.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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

EUROPEAN DESIGN SINCE 1985 COMING TO MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM<\/strong>
\nEveryday items prove they are more than just objects October 9, 2010\u2013January 9, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n

Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 October 6, 2010<\/strong> \u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s newest feature exhibition, European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century<\/em>, opens this Saturday, October 9. It is the first encompassing, critical assessment of contemporary Western European design from 1985 to 2005. <\/em><\/p>\n

European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century<\/em> will present more than 200 seminal works including furniture, ceramics, metalwork, glass and product design that reveal the extraordinary creativity of over 100 European designers. The exhibition defines Europe\u2019s central role in driving design\u2019s proliferation during the 1980s and 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis exhibition reminds us that great art is present in our lives every day. European Design Since 1985 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

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 show is divided into eight sections which include objects highlighting modern, postmodern, biomorphic, neo-dada and minimalist design, among others.<\/p>\n

\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

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<\/strong>
\nThe 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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