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19/11/2003

Superstudio

Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

SUPERSTUDIO, Avant Garde Sixties Italian Design Group

featured in Pratt Manhattan Gallery Exhibition

New York, New York, October 20, 2003xratt Manhattan Gallery, Artists Space, and Storefront for Art and Architecture jointly present Superstudio: Life Without Objects, an exhibition of the work of Superstudio, the avant garde Italian design group that dominated radical thinking in design and architecture during the late 1960s and 1970s.

Curated in collaboration with members of Superstudio, the exhibition will revisit Superstudio's ideas and work through photo-montages, films, story boards, sketches, and furniture drawn from the group's archives and explore its enduring influence on contemporary architects and designers.

Founded in Florence in 1966 by a group of radical architecture graduates Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro and Roberto Magris, and Adolfo Natalini Superstudio articulated the intellectual crisis of modernism by creating alternative visions of the future. The members of Superstudio were contemporaries of those who started such Italian avant garde design groups as Archizoom and Gruppo 9999.
Central to Superstudio's work was its disillusionment with the modernist ideal that enlightened architects and designers could change the world for the better. Equally pessimistic about politics, Superstudio questioned politiciansility to solve mounting social, cultural, and environmental problems. The founders also saw technology as a potentially destructive force, as well as a positive one.
In the United States, Superstudio: Life Without Objects is curated by Peter Lang of Texas A&M University and William Menking of Pratt Institute, along with Superstudio. The exhibition was first staged at the Design Museum in London, England and organized to travel internationally by James Peto, head of exhibitions at the Design Museum.

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Symposium, "Life Without Objects"
Saturday, November 22, 2:000 pm
Room 213, adjacent to the Gallery

Participants include Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor, Columbia University; Peter Lang, exhibition co-curator and professor, Texas A&M University; William Menking, exhibition co-curator and professor, Pratt Institute; Luca Molinari, critic and historian and editor, Skira editore; as well as Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Piero Frassinelli, and Adolfo Natalini, co-founders of Superstudio. Moderated by Paola Antonelli, curator, Architecture and Design, Musuem of Modern Art. Remarks by Thomas Hanrahan, dean, School of Architecture, Pratt Institute.

Pratt Institute has been at the intersection of art, information, and society since 1887. It is the largest school in the country devoted to these fields. Its programs are designed for students who intend to use their creativity and their passion to speak to the issues, to communicate the messages of others, and to build the tools and structures that will represent their time. Pratt is located on a twenty-five acre campus in Brooklynx historic Clinton Hill neighborhood and in a newly renovated building on West 14 Street in Manhattan. Its schools of Architecture, Art and Design, Information and Library Sciences, and Liberal Arts and Sciences enroll 4,400 undergraduate and graduate students from across the United States and around the world.

Superstudio: Life Without Objects
November 20, 2003 january 31, 2004
Press Preview: Thursday, November 20, 1m
Opening reception: Thursday, November 20, 6m
(closed November 27 December 21 january 12)

Nick Battis
Assistant Director of Exhibitions
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
718 636 3517

Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street
New York, NY 10011

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