March Diary 2012

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


British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age	Zoe Leonard: Available Light	Davide Deriu
Victoria and Albert Museum, London	Camden Arts Centre, London	Nottingham Contemporary Arts Centre, Nottingham
31 March – 12 August 2012	31 March – 24 June 2012	1 March 2012
Taking the years 1948 – the last time London hosted the Olympic Games – and 2012 as its chronological bookends, this major V&A exhibition charts the movements in British design during the postwar years. More than 300 works are divided into themes of tradition and modernity, subversion and innovation and creativity. Expect to see British classics such as Concorde and the Jaguar E-type alongside some more obscure discoveries from the museum's archives. www.vam.ac.uk	Zoe Leonard is turning a gallery of the Camden Arts Centre into a camera obscura for the installation Available Light. Last year, the American artist transformed a room in Cologne's Galerie Gisela Capitain with the same technique – flooding its floor, walls and ceiling with inverted images of the street scene outside it. Leonard often uses photography to explore the relationship between the world and its image, and in 2008 she filled New York's Dia:Beacon with 4,000 vintage postcards of Niagara Falls taken from different viewpoints (pictured). www.camdenartscentre.org	Davide Deriu, curator of the Canadian Centre for Architecture's Modernism in Miniature exhibition, is giving a talk at the Nottingham Contemporary about the history of the architectural model. Deriu proposes that modernism propelled the model back into prominence as protagonists such as Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier sought an objective way to communicate their ideas that was completely unlike the hyperbolic beaux-arts style drawings of the 19th century. www.nottinghamcontemporary.org



The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area	Dan Graham: Rock 'n' Roll Show	Budapest Architecture Film Days
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco	Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Zurich	Toldi Cinema, Budapest
31 March – 29 July 2012	Until 7 April 2012	29 March – 1 April 2012
Buckminster Fuller has influenced many important architects and designers: Norman Foster, Isamu Noguchi and Massimiliano Fuksas, to name a few. But this month SFMOMA is zoning in on the visionary architect's legacy within San Francisco's Bay Area, and how creatives there have been inspired by his progressive ideals. 1970s avant-garde design collective Ant Farm's inflatable dwellings and Nicholas de Monchaux's Local Code Initiative are both part of the survey. www.sfmoma.org	Rock 'n' Roll Show: Unrealised Projects for Children and Boutique Architecture promises an interesting look at Graham's success (and failure) in using his art practice to fulfil architectural briefs. Graham is known for experimenting with the object-viewer relationship and the selected works will examine where his practice overlaps with built reality. Designs for the Children's Pavilion and an unrealised boutique interior will be shown with several new works: architectural models and a pavilion created specially for the exhibition. www.hauserwirth.com	In March, the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre (KÉK) will stage its fourth architecture film festival. All the films have been chosen to explore the dialogue between architecture and urban context but relate to wider themes too. We will be making space in our schedules for My Playground (2009), a documentary on Parkour made in collaboration with Bjarke Ingels, and Doc.Eye Film's The Forgotten Space (2010), a cinematic essay about sea transport and globalisation (pictured). www.kek.org.hu/filmnapok/en



Pick Me Up Graphic Art Fair	John Pawson
Somerset House, London	Pinakothek der Moderne,Munich
22 March – 1 April 2012	1 March – 20 May 2012
Pick Me Up is the perfect place for scoping out graphic art and illustration talent this month. Galleries and collectives are invited to show at the fortnight-long fair, with 20 designers including Yoko Furusho (pictured) and Zim & Zou (Icon 104's cover artists) featuring in the accompanying exhibition Pick Me Up Selects. Multidisciplinary studio Peepshow Collective will be installing a temporary Museum of Objects & Origins and asking visitors to fill its curiosity cabinets with their own creations. www.somersethouse.org.uk	As London patiently awaits John Pawson's transformation of the Commonwealth Institute into the new Design Museum, Munich gets a taste of the minimalist British architect's work with a major exhibition at the Pinakothek der Moderne. A site-specific 1:1 installation or "building within a building" will take centre stage, and photographs, models and drawings will describe Pawson's landmark projects such as the Sackler Crossing and the Novy Dvur monastery (pictured). www.pinakothek.de