Archive for the ‘exhibitions’ Category
PLAY!
Contributor: Guillaume Vieira, Sérgio Bilou Carronha
Play is the enjoyment during an physical activity, as well as a description for the activation of any audio visual device. Before this ambiguity, the exhibition presents a distance between the role of the body in action and the common use of the word. It is left open to the spectator the possibility of using the body as an object to action or to look on others action. PLAY! is an exhibition based on two different work groups, where each author deals with different assumptions and expectations about the action. Sérgio Bilou Carronha sculptures have a clear conscience on their aestethic role while leaving it open to acquire a musical significance as an instrument, as Guillaume Vieira photographs describe physical activities in suspension, subtracting their perception in a specific role transforming this agents on passive figures, isolating them from their own action.
OPENING COCKTAIL
06 March 17h00
06 - 17 March 2010
FABRICA FEATURES LISBOA
Rua Garret (Chiado)
nº 83 - 4º andar
Lisbon, Portugal
Tel: +351 21 32 56 765
Monday to Saturday - 10h to 20h
fabrica-features-lisboa.blogspot.com
BIZARRE in Cologne
During the Cologne’s Design Week, the Sisley store in Ehrenstrasse will feature Bizarre, a collection of ceramics, especially created by Sam Baron for Sisley, re-inventing one of the best Portuguese traditions through a contemporary vision of the old “savoir-faire”. The collection assembles a futuristic approach of souvenirs inherited from the past, merging details of a long tradition of nature-inspired shapes with classic vases and tableware pieces.
Consisting of five limited-production objects, which will be sold in the Sisley store during the Design Week, the Bizarre collection is a range of vases and tableware in classic shapes with industrial-production ceramic figurines used as three-dimensional decorative details. A way of “populating” our home with strange, hybrid creatures: from a vase which hosts a family of swans or with indiscreet rabbit ears that create floral motifs, to the plate that seems to have a fish swimming in it, or the salt and pepper set where a bee has settled gently. The ceramics are made by hand and produced by Olfaire, in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
Contributors: Fabrica Design Department / Sam Baron, Catarina Carreiras and Valentina Carretta
18-24 January 2010
Sisley Store
Ehrenstrasse 45-47
Kohln, Germany
Wishmas @ FF Bologna
Wish away, keep on wishing, wish on, save a wish, build a wish, wish to wish, make a wish… WISH.
New wishmas display at Fabrica Features Bologna.
Project By Catarina Carreiras and Elliott Burford
+ info: http://www.fabricafeatures.com/xmas-09/xmas-at-ff-bologna/
VIAGRA, CIALIS, ROLEX WATCH
Contributor: Luis Urculo
“Viagra, Cialis, Rolex Watch is a portrait/interpretation/walk through the spam that the artist Luis Urculo receives on his studio everyday. The work is based on mails, images, databases and concepts as contemporary landscapes to create to create pieces in wool, paper, glass and wood. Unperfect drawings for an unperfect life.” (L.U.)
OPENING COCKTAIL
19 December 17h 00
19 December 2009 - 18 January 2010
FABRICA FEATURES LISBOA
Rua Garret (Chiado)
nº 83 - 4º andar
Lisbon, Portugal
Tel: +351 21 32 56 765
Monday to Saturday - 10h to 20h
fabrica-features-lisboa.blogspot.com
FABRICA at CREATIVE WEEKEND MADRID 2009
Contributor: Fabrica Design Department
Fabrica will present its latest product collection in Creative Weekend, a complete weekend dedicated to creativity, that will take place on December 18th, 19th & 20th at Hotel Chic&Basic Mayerling in Madrid.
A selection of designers, fashion designers and artists will be exhibiting and selling their creations. Each room will be customized and transformed by the artists into a temporary gallery-shop to show their work to the visitors who will also be able to chat directly with the creators.
Fabrica will exhibit Fabrica Features, a dynamically evolving series of products and collections mapped by a web of multipurpose commercial and cultural spaces around the world. Each of the products is designed by a team of young, enterprising international designers and captures the crisp, multi-paletted Fabrica spirit which is rooted in research. The products embody Fabrica’s values of novelty, collaboration and diversity of thought. They challenge conformities by posing subtle interventions to daily routines and realities. Among the products, are there sketchbooks, posters, boxes, bags, tapes, objects for the house, jewelry, ceramics and Colors magazine.
18-19-20 December 2009
CREATIVE WEEKEND
Hotel Chic&Basic Mayerling
Conde de Romanones 6
20012 Madrid
SPAIN
Friday 18th 17.30-23.00 h
Saturday 19th 11.00-23.00 h
Sunday 20th 10.30-15.00 h
For more info http://creativeweekend.itunube.com
LADYKILLERS
Contributors: TOSCA.lab
Created in 2006 by the designers Ricardo Milne and Catarina Nunes, the TOSCA.Lab project is a studio/workshop that fuses the fields of ceramics, design and illustration in order to create its own language inserted in the new trends of urban Art.
The new illustrations and “CeramicToys” presented in this exhibition focus on visual contrasts that give them originality and still point into new directions in the constant research of TOSCA.lab. On one hand we have the irreverence and asymmetry of Urban Art and Graffiti, on the other the harmony and order of the “Vector Art”, both visions lead to illustrations loaded with irony and dark humour.
OPENING COCKTAIL
28 November 18h 00
28 November - 15 December 2009
FABRICA FEATURES LISBOA
Rua Garret (Chiado)
nº 83 - 4º andar
Lisbon, Portugal
Tel: +351 21 32 56 765
Monday to Saturday - 10h to 20h
fabrica-features-lisboa.blogspot.com
TRANS-FORMA IN ATHENS
Contributor: Fabrica Design Department
After the Milan Furniture Fair (April 2009) and the Venice Art Biennial (June 2009), Trans-Forma, an exhibition of classic Zanotta designs which Fabrica’s young designers have reinterpreted with a modern twist, will be presented from the 11th to the 28th of November at the Zanotta Shop in Athens, Greece.
The exhibition envisages 17 icon items from Zanotta’s collection, which under the guidance of Sam Baron, designer and responsible of Fabrica’s design projects, have been reinterpreted in a metaphorical key by the team’s young creatives. From the clothes stand Shanghai to the seat Sella, the inflatable armchair Blow, the mirror Milo, the table Bieder, every item gradually takes on unforeseen forms and functions among the catalogue’s evergreens.
11 - 28 November 2009
ZANOTTA SHOP
11-13 Sina street, Kolonaki
Athens
Tel. +30 210 3613218
www.zanotta.it
ARTISTLEVEL COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION
Contributors: Cláudia Barradas, Diana Mestre, De Matos, Eslsa Labistour, Eduardo Bragança, Fátima Mateus, Filipa Silveira, Francisca Menezes Ferreira, Isabel Mourão, Joana Lobo Anta, Joana Pinho Morgado, João Teixeira, Maria Celeste, M Lowndes, Natália Barros, Rita Carvalho Marques, Rita Fernandes, Vanessa Teodoro
Artistlevel.org is an online platform which aims to promote the new artists’ diversity and creativity. From 31st October to 24th November some of the Artistlevel artists Exhibit in Fabrica Features Lisboa their work - video, photography, drawing, painting, sculpture and jewelry design.
OPENING COCKTAIL
31st October 16h 30
31 October - 24 November 2009
FABRICA FEATURES LISBOA
Rua Garret (Chiado)
nº 83 - 4º andar
Lisbon, Portugal
Tel: +351 21 32 56 765
Monday to Saturday - 10h to 20h
fabrica-features-lisboa.blogspot.com
PELE
Footwear Design by Nuno Matos
A collection of seven pairs of men’s shoes, Pele is a design project resulting from a creative process dictated by research and experimentation. Shoes-objects developed through creative interpretations, technical solutions, functional orientation and personal aesthetics. Pele explores concepts related to aging, deterioration, the abrasion and the use of matter. It is time, history, memories, the life of objects exposed to human activity and the effects of nature. Pele is nourished by referencing the universe of classic men’s footwear of the twentieth century and by the observation of visual stories of the 1940/50, portrayed in photographs of Irving Penn’s “Small Trades”, among others. Pele plays with opposite, extremes, and contrasts: rich versus poor, refined versus rough, interior versus exterior, old versus new. It presents a collection of men’s shoes, each model with its own identity, custom-made and set within a contemporary design reality. Pele is also a document/book that reveals the creative journey of the designer and tells of prototype production, running through collaborative interceptions with other designers, artists, artisans and technicians of the Footwear Industry.
OPENING COCKTAIL
15 October 17h 00
15 - 30 October 2009
FABRICA FEATURES LISBOA
Rua Garret (Chiado)
nº 83 - 4º andar
Lisbon, Portugal
Tel: +351 21 32 56 765
Monday to Saturday - 10h to 20h
fabrica-features-lisboa.blogspot.com
C’E QUALCOSA DI VERO NELLA PANCIA DELLA LUNA
Opere di Mario Paroli, a cura di Tiziana Sanzone.
Mostra di 8 costruzioni in legno laccato, resina, lamiera, neon e plexiglass, raccontano il rapporto tra sogno, gioco, realtà. Protagonista unico è EMP: icona dell’uomo contemporaneo lindo e stirato nell’aspetto, pressato da urgenze nella vita quotidiana che trova rifugio e ideale nascondiglio in un mondo favolistico racchiuso tutto nella sua casetta rossa.
3 - 31 ottobre 2009
FABRICA FEATURES BOLOGNA
Strada Maggiore 7/E
Bologna, Italia
Tel. +39 051224873
Dal Lunedì al Sabato
10h - 13h e 15h - 19.30h
fabfeat@libero.it
