Programma at the HKU.
A multi-disciplinary and collaborative students group from the Utrecht School of the...
Modernism
HIGH RISE / DOWN FALL
A project by Johannes Schwartz
Essay by Patrick Healy
In the same series: High Noon ( 2003), High Nature ( 2004), HighLight / HighBold (2005).
High Rise was published on the occasion of the exhibition Now and Again that took place in October 2005 at Pastoe, Utrecht.
Down Fall was published on the occasion of an exhibition that took place later that year, at Marres, Maastricht. Both shows were curated by Guus Beumer e.a.
Copyright (c) 2005 JohannesSchwartz
An Alphabet of Space
The Dutch Pavilion, Hanover
October 2005... more
4 October, 2009 - 11:00 - 18 October, 2009 - 17:00
Tuesday-Sunday 11 am - 5 pm
Curators:
Guus Beumer The exhibition Unresolved Matters refers among other things to the longing for nature and the designers’ task to design from the view of a new ‘natural’ relation to the body. In the Netherlands, Alexander van Slobbe’s designs are known to have a distinct connection with views of Henri van der Velde and the ‘freie korper’ culture of the first half of the twentieth century; a tradition that Mr. Van Slobbe mingled with the abstractions of designer Balenciaga and modernism. Recently he said in an interview: “I do not make statues with legs.... more
The exhibition Nu – 90 jaar Pastoe, curated by Guus Beumer and Gert Staal, was an attempt to investigate the potential of Modernism today. That exhibition was a good occasion for a conversation between Beumer and Louise Schouwenberg about Dutch design. The result is a series of loose impressions.... more
Design, as we know it today, is a twentieth-century phenomenon. Admittedly, concern for the appearance of things is not new. All cultures have been concerned with making clothes, everyday objects, interiors of various spaces, whether sacred spaces, spaces of power, or private spaces, "beautiful and impressive."... more