Today I went to see Post Fossil exhibition at the 21_21 Gallery in Midtown, tokyo and I belive is one of the best sights I've ever seen an exhibition in. The building was designed by architect Tadao Ando, whose brief was to design a structure that would represent Japan...
Curated by trend forecaster Li Edelkoort(her clients include Coca-Cola, Nissan, Camper, Siemens, Moooi; she launched photo-magazine Bloom, elected Chairwoman of the Design Academy, Eindhoven), here are the curator's words about PostFossil exhibition: “At the turn of the new century, things are changing dramatically. Society is ready to break away from last century for good,” “In the aftermath of the worst financial crisis in decades, a period of glamorous and streamlined design for design’s sake comes to an end.” As opposed to what we thought would be the futuristic language of the 21st century, this exhibition shows the total opposite: “Instead, it is pre-historic.”'Designers are seeking to 'retrace their roots and research their history, sometimes going back to the beginning of time,'...
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