May Diary

Error

JUser: :_load: Unable to load user with ID: 85

font size decrease font size increase font size
Print
Email
Be the first to comment!

Rate this item

(0 votes)

Diary editor: Riya Patel \| This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


Elmgreen & Dragset at Submarine Wharf	Clerkenwell Design Week	Monica Ali on 19 Princelet Street, the Museum of Immigration
Rotterdam Harbour, Rotterdam	Various venues, London	Geological Society, London
28 May 2011 – 25 September 2011	24-26 May 2011	16 May 2011
Visual artists Elmgreen & Dragset will create an installation for Rotterdam's Submarine Wharf this summer, commissioned by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Although the duo's plans for the 5,000sq m industrial space remain under wraps, if it's anywhere near as dramatic as Short Cut (2003), a camper trailer crashed into the mosaic floor of Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, or 2005's Prada boutique stranded in the Texan desert, they will have our undivided attention. www.boijmans.nl	Once again, the streets and squares of London's design district will come alive for the annual three-day festival, with exhibitions by emerging and established talents as well as talks, live entertainment and parties. Our tip is to check out the inflatable music installation by Plastique Fantastique that will be popping up on St John's Square. For Icon's highlights, see our Clerkenwell preview (page 097). www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com	Author Monica Ali will highlight the plight of the under-funded Museum of Immigration as part of the lecture series, Critic's Choice: London's Most Important Building, for the Royal Academy. The little-known 18th-century building in Spitalfields is a former Huguenot silk weaver's home with a Victorian synagogue in the garden. Today it serves as a fascinating architectural document of the cultures that have shaped London over the centuries. www.royalacademy.org.uk



Ai Weiwei	Industrial Furniture: Prototypes of the Modern Era	International Contemporary Furniture Fair
Lisson Gallery, London	MAK Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna	Javits Convention Centre, New York
13 May 2011 – 16 July 2011	25 May 2011 – 30 October 2011	14-17 May 2011
We interviewed the persecuted Chinese artist back in our March issue (Icon 093) to examine how the work of his studio, FAKE Design, blurs the boundary between art and architecture. Now the Lisson Gallery presents a show of his smaller-scale work, video and sculptural assemblies, including Coloured Vases (2006, pictured) – a selection of ancient vessels, treated as readymades and dipped in brightly coloured paint. www.lissongallery.com	MAK's curator of furniture and woodworks, Sebastian Hackenschmidt, has trawled the museum's extensive archives to assemble a study collection of industrial furniture dating from the Second World War and before. The furniture is purposefully arranged in a simple and categorical way for contemporary interpretation. Made from standard factory materials such as steel, iron and wooden planks, the functional aesthetic of these objects makes them easily recognisable as forerunners of modern design. www.mak.at	ICFF, North America's answer to the Milan Furniture Fair, takes place this month and there should be plenty to keep avid design fans satisfied. The organisers promise "a global summit of what's best and what's next in design" with over 550 international exhibitors peddling their furniture, lighting and textiles over an enormous 13,500sq m of exhibition space. If you do manage to find your way out, there'll be fringe events to check out too. www.icff.com



Collect 2011	Daniel Buren: Echoes, Work in Situ	Donald Judd The Object is Not Online
Saatchi Gallery, London	Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz	David Zwirner Gallery, New York
6-9 May 2011	From 8 May 2011	5 May 2011 – 25 June 2011
This month the Saatchi Gallery will host Collect 2011: a high-calibre art fair that brings together exquisite ceramics, glass, jewellery, textile and metal work from 37 international galleries. Four hundred pieces are on show, including glass sculptures by Tobias Møhl and contemporary jewellery by Sally Collins (pictured). New for this year will be a project space on the Saatchi's second floor – look out for a living wall by ceramicist Rosa Nguyen that evolves throughout the fair. www.craftscouncil.org.uk/collect	The French conceptual artist Daniel Buren is known for transforming architectural spaces with regular stripes of alternating colour. This summer he will take over Shigeru Ban's celebrated Pompidou-Metz (Icon 083) with one of his site-specific works. Last October, Buren created a spectacular installation for Luxembourg's Museum of Modern Art by IM Pei. www.centrepompidou-metz.fr	In 1989, American artist Donald Judd (1928-94) held a seminal exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden, Germany. Twelve room-sized boxes, each subdivided with planes of coloured metal or plastic, formed the basis of the display: stark minimalist works that conveyed his methodological approach to proportions. In May, David Zwirner will reprise these works to promote the legacy of this influential artist – a rare chance to see the installation as originally intended. www.davidzwirner.com