January Diary

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Diary editor: Riya Patel\| riya@icon-magazine.co.uk


Gabriel Orozco	IMM Cologne 2011	Maison&Objet
Tate Modern, London	Koelnmesse, Koln	Villepinte Exhibition Centre, Paris
19 January – 25 April	18-23 January 2011	21-25 January 2011
Playful Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco creates art and sculpture that reveal new qualities in everyday objects. There's a sense of mad obsession in his key works; an artfully sliced and re-assembled Citroen DS car (pictured above), a geometrically patterned human skull and a scroll filled with numbers cut and pasted from a phone book. Photographs and drawings complete the collection to further communicate Orozco's unique approach to cultural appreciation. www.tate.org.uk	Pure Textile, a new show at IMM Cologne, sounds well worth cramming into your hectic fair schedule. Show organisers edged out other German trade fairs to exclusively showcase the fabric and carpets of a design collective that includes Nya Nordiska, Zimmer+Rohde and Création Baumann. When that's ticked off, there's the ever-promising d3 design talent showcase to see, the "Boulevard of Innovations" and stylist Annett Janowiak's lounge area in the Sleep hall, for when it all gets a bit too much. www.imm-cologne.com	Although a more manageable affair than IMM Cologne, you can still count on this biannual Parisian trade fair to get the design year off to an interesting start. Eight halls of furniture, fabric, lighting and home accessories await as well as the wares of local shops and galleries. Exact details of this year's Maison&Objet are still under wraps but we're expecting the usual chance to spot approaching trends and a frenzy of commercial sales. www.maison-objet.com


Stephen Jones in conversation with Colin McDowell	Architecture on Film: Dark Days	Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Colour and Space
Design Museum, London	Barbican Centre, London	The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
26 January 2011	31 January 2011	Until 27 February 2011
Master of millinery Stephen Jones appears at the Design Museum this January as part of a series of talks that accompany the Drawing Fashion exhibition. Idiosyncrasy is the hallmark of Jones' hat designs, which have been worn by pop-elite Beyoncé Knowles and Gwen Stefani as well as gracing the runways of Rei Kawakubo's Comme des Garçons collections. The talk, initiated by fashion journalist Colin McDowell, will explore how Jones' designs relate to and inspire illustration. www.designmuseum.org	The Architecture Foundation are screening the Marc Singer film Dark Days as part of a regular season of films at the Barbican. It's a sensitive portrayal of a homeless community living in the underground train tunnels of New York, with whom Singer lived for two years. It describes the innovation of a self-built community using whatever means they can to sustain themselves. If you missed out on seeing this film first time around, be sure to catch it now. www.barbican.org.uk	MOCA's exhibition re-creates the large-scale installations of Latin American artists Carlos Cruz-Diez, Lucio Fontana, Julio Le Parc, Hélio Oiticica, and Jesus Rafael. Curated by Alma Ruiz, the event will locate these artists within the international canon of the light and space movement. These five artists consistently challenged historical perceptions of art as static, two-dimensional experience. www.moca.org


Sergej Jensen	AFF Architekten	Thomas Leeser's redesign The Object is Not Online
MoMA PS1, New York	German Centre for Architecture, Berlin	Museum of the Moving Image, New York
23 January – 2 May 2011	22 January – 6 March 2011	15 January – 20 February 2011
Berlin-based artist Sergej Jensen works within the idiom of minimalist painting but takes materials as his starting point. He subjects a range of textiles to bleaching, fraying and sewing in place of the traditional gestures of pure painting. Stains, holes, cracks and signs of use in his fragile artworks represent his contemplation of history and off-cuts from previous works often reappear as motifs for new paintings. www.ps1.org	AFF's House in Fichtelberg was featured back in our September issue (Icon 087) and it's good to see news of their work is spreading. Architect brothers Martin and Sven Fröhlich will show their work as part of the FORMULA_X exhibition series: a showcase of up and coming international talent. Following on from exhibitions by London's Plasma Studio and interdisciplinary network Ecosistema Urbano, the pair will show their understanding of architecture as "object-like" and the interpretation and application of metaphor in their work. www.daz.de	America's only museum of screen culture has been undergoing a redesign by architect Thomas Leeser. The building has been expanded by three-storeys with a new theatre, screening room and education space. The rear facade comprises 1,067 thin triangular aluminium panels as a reference "to the infinite thinness of the moving image". All will be unveiled to the public in a grand re-opening on 15 January with a series of inaugural films, talks, live music and special events to follow. www.movingimage.us