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19/1/2006

Two exhibitions

Contemporary Art Centre - CAC, Vilnius

My World: the new subjectivity in design

Curators: Emily Campbell and Andree Cooke

Participants: Danny Brown, Committee, Doshi Levien, Neutral, Peter Traag, Alison Willoughby, Wokmedia

Craft has traditionally been interpreted as a combination of individual creativity and closeness to materials or making. Recently, these phenomena have become more acutely attached to design. My World is an international exhibition developed for Experimenta 2005, the Lisbon Design Biennale that considers the causes and manifestations of this trend. In a globalized consumer economy in which commodities are mass-produced and look the same the world over ‘hand crafting’ represents a return to personal or local identity. My world presents the work of seven designers/collectives from a new generation of designers that are reintroducing personality, touch, play, and a sense of art into the objects they design.

Presented in association with My World, initiated by the British Council, an exhibition exploring the conceptual domain of craft/design/history from the perspective of contemporary art.

Organizer: British Council

Opening of two exhibitions: Friday 20 January, 6 pm

Press conference: Friday 20 January, 5 pm

From 20 January to 26 February

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David Mabb

Art into everyday life

Curator: Simon Rees

London artist David Mabb’s project has evolved out of several months spent researching Lithuanian applied arts production during the Soviet period known as the ‘Kruschev Thaw’. At that time protocols were developed to place artists/master craftsman in charge of industrial production of ceramics, glass, stained glass, textiles, and carpets — an initiative called ‘art into everyday life’ — that extended through to the 1970s and the ‘Brezhnev Stagnation’. It was a period that also produced a number of elegant modernist buildings.

After independence this history and the objects/buildings have been devalued because of their Soviet associations. Working with AB Kilimai, Lentvaris David Mabb has produced three tufted carpets combining images of three buildings Sporto Rumai, Vilnius Kino, and Lietuva Kino and design motifs combining Lithuanian patterns from the era, and patterns derived from the work of William Morris (who, as well as being a designer, founded the first architectural conservation society in Britain): saving them for future generations.

Organizers: British Council and CAC

Exhibition partner: The Contemporary Art Information Centre of Lithuanian Art Museum

Supporters: AB Kilimai, Department of Textiles Vilnius Art Academy

From 20 January to 19 March

Contemporary Art Centre
Vokieciu 2 - Vilnius

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