FUTURE.city.past.FORWARD
April 11 – May 3, 2009
opening reception: Saturday, April 11, 2009
6pm-9pm
Curated by Gregory Marinic and Mary-Jo Schlachter
artists/architects/designers:
Michael Ambrose, Sangjoon Bae, Behrang Behin, Francis A. Bitonti, Damian Chan, Hoi Wang Chan, Richie Gelles, Lynden Giles, Ginseng Chicken, Chris Hardwicke, Andreas Helgesson, Ji Young Kim, Caitlin Masley, Eduardo McIntosh, Nkiru Mokwe, Rafael Ortiz Martinez de Carnero, Ana Penalba Estebanez, Blake Perkins, Mark Rist, Gabriel Tamez, Isaac Williams, B.D. Wortham-Galvin, Liam Young
Futurist utopian visions of urbanism in the 1960s proposed by Japanese Metabolists and Archigram amounted to very few deployable works, yet significantly influenced a generation of architects, artists, cinematographers, and designers. These movements embraced notions of social reform, popular culture, and high-tech innovation in their provocative concepts for a future world where cities floated and buildings walked. Recent work in fantastical form across the disciplines revisits and transforms futurism through a contemporary lens. FUTURE.city.past.FORWARD features work in art, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and graphics that expresses futurism at various scales and from emerging perspectives.
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