FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 5, 2013 MEDIA CONTACTS: Erin Hogan Carl Krause (312) 443-3664 (312) 443-3363
[email protected] [email protected] ART INSTITUTE EXHIBITION EXPLORES COMMON CONCEPTS IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN ACROSS TIME AND PLACE Sharing Space Opens April 6, 2013 Features Work by Charles and Ray Eames, R. Buckminster Fuller, Hella Jongerius, Rudolf Schindler, and More A new installation drawn from the Art Institute of Chicago’s renowned collection of architecture and design explores the common ground between the two fields throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. On view April 6– August 18, 2013 in Galleries 283–285, Sharing Space: Creative Intersections in Architecture and Design showcases the depth of the collection by presenting works selected with an eye toward mutual creative concepts and strategies rather than the typical categories of media or period. By doing so, the exhibition creates exciting new “conversations” between works that are organized into six creative ideas or themes: color, geometry, structure, hybrid, surface, and technology. The result offers visitors the chance to see new and unexpected relationships among the related areas of architecture, urban planning, visual communications, and industrial design from a global mix of designers and architects spanning over a century of time. Each of the six sections of the exhibition illuminates underlying formal or conceptual concepts in what might first seem to be disparate works. The use of color to camouflage or blur the boundaries of an object, for example, can be seen in architect Douglas Garofalo’s 1991 Camouflage House as well as a vividly hued glass table by Johanna Grawunder (2010).