HIGH MUSEUM OF ART TO PRESENT 'EUROPEAN DESIGN SINCE 1985: SHAPING THE NEW CENTURY'

THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA, WILL BE PRESENTING A NEW EXHIBITION 'EUROPEAN DESIGN SINCE 1985: SHAPING THE NEW CENTURY', THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF WESTERN DESIGN FROM 1985 TO 2005. THE EXHIBITION TRACES THE EVOLUTION OF DESIGN WITH NEARLY 200 WORKS BY SOME OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ARTISTS OF THIS ERA, ENCOMPASSING FURNITURE, GLASS, CERAMICS, METALWORK AND A BROAD RANGE OF PRODUCT DESIGN CREATED BY 117 DESIGNERS FROM 14 WESTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. ADDITIONAL WORKS FROM THIS PERIOD WILL BE INCORPORATED FROM THE HIGH'S GROWING COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY DESIGN. 'EUROPEAN DESIGN SINCE 1985', ORGANIZED BY THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART (IMA) AND THE DENVER ART MUSEUM, IN CONJUNCTION WITH KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, LONDON, WILL BE ON VIEW AT THE HIGH FROM 5.JUNE THROUGH 29.AUGUST.2010. 'EUROPEAN DESIGN SINCE 1985' EXAMINES THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LARGER AESTHETIC MOVEMENTS OF DECORATIVE AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN THAT TRANSCENDED NATIONAL BORDERS AND DEFINED NEW RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ART, DESIGN AND CRAFT DURING THIS PERIOD. THE EXHIBITION ALSO FOCUSES ON THE TWO GENERATIONS OF DESIGNERS THAT SHAPED THESE MOVEMENTS. THE FIRST GENERATION, BORN AFTER WORLD WAR II, INCLUDES RON ARAD, PHILIPPE STARCK, AND MARC NEWSON. BORN AFTER 1960, THE SECOND GENERATION HAS ONLY RECENTLY BEGUN TO ATTRACT INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION AND INCLUDES JURGEN BEY, MAARTEN BAAS, AND MARCEL WANDERS.
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