Somewhat Different

When : February 27 - March 13, 2012
10.00 a.m. - 8.00 p.m.(Mon. - Thu.) , 10.00 a.m. - 9.00 p.m. (Fri. - Sun.)

Where : Crystal Design Center, D building

Category : Event / Art Galleries

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Who : The Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) and curator Volker Albus

What / Why :

Somewhat Different

Contemporary Design and the Power of Convention

The Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) and curator Volker Albus have prepared the exhibition somewhat different. Contemporary Design and the Power of Convention which shows selected examples of this design phenomenon.

The great diversity of designs diverging from the conventional is illustrated by 106 different items and a total of 148 objects by 67 individual designers and studios, 47 of them based in Germany and 20 in other European countries. The exhibition discusses the objects in terms of function, materials, construction and content references.

The bookshelf, the Persian rug, the easy chair: these generic terms alone trigger associations relating to the structural, decorative and configurative aspects of the objects. This is why designers deliberately subvert their general, conventional understanding to reveal their absurdity. The designs do not only provoke astonishment, but challenge one to reflect on general expectations, codes of behaviour as well as the referential context of firmly established notions, and to review traditional fixations. For it is these 'breaks with the power of convention' that in their causality document the far-reaching socio-cultural changes which we currently witness in all areas of our daily lives and which manifest themselves in key phenomena such as mobility, migration, changing nutritional habits and many more.

Remark :

Opening: March 27, 2012 at 6.00 p.m.

For More Information :

Contact : Tel:0 2287 0942-4
E-mail:info@bangkok.goethe.org

Site : http://www.goethe.de/ins/th/ban/th8256156v.htm

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