Post Fossil: excavating 21st century creation' is a new design exhibition curated by trend-forecaster Li Edelkoort, atDesign Museum Holon, Israël.
The exhibition presents the work of over 60 international contemporary designers, illustrating how the design of the future can be inspired by the archaic aesthetics, organic materials and poetic techniques of the past.
"Edelkoort has assembled a selection of future fossils, based on the understanding that one of the best ways to study design is through the analysis of archaeological relics. In contrast to the common perception of future design as technological and interactive, 'Post Fossil' enables us to examine the future by gazing back to the past and to re-experience the primal encounter between man, matter and basic forms". Galit Gaon, chief curator of Design Museum Holon
In the wake of the global economic crisis, the period of glamorous and streamlined design for design's sake has come to an end. This exhibition seeks to review the value systems constructed over the previous century by showcasing objects by a new breed of designers creating work that challenges and overturns our conventional notions of design. The exhibiting designers are retracing the steps of human history and going back to the primitive roots of the very act of making things. They are redesigning shelter and tools as well as lifestyle, incorporating elements from nature into materials and the creation process.
The exhibition includes works from designers such as Pieke Bergmans (the Netherlands), Nacho Carbonell (Spain), Arik Levy (Israel),Tomás Libertiny (Slovakia), Peter Marigold (United Kingdom), Tanja Saeter (Norway) and Studio Job (the Netherlands) and Boaz Cohen (Israel).
Exhibition:
Post Fossil: excavating 21st century creation
Design Museum Holon, Israël
From January 27 to April 30 2011
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