Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Design as art/art as design: two Italians

Shows at Berlin's Daimler Contemporary never fail to impress me.  Their current exhibition Conceptual & Applied III: Surfaces And Pattern explores the grey area between art and design.  Among others, two Italian artists spanning two distinct generations are featured at the show.

Bruno Munari, based on his 1966 influential publication Arte Come Mestiere (English translation Design As Art):










Carmelo Tedeschi's art as wearable design: