Echo
Sfeir-Semler gallery, Beirut
19th January – 29th March 2008
“In today’s contemporary culture, it seems like the old dividing line between artists and designers is becoming more and more blurred. Sharing the same scope of inspiration and experimentation, today these creators are not only questioning the limits of art and the everyday object but also investigating our contemporary culture. On the one hand, realizing that form is no longer defined purely by function but rather by its meaning, designers have started to think conceptually. On the other hand, artists are more and more fascinated with design and how it has influenced our visual and popular culture. Thus, artists and designers nowadays are not only exploring each other’s strategies and fields but also collaborating. The exhibition Echo hopes to present a series of projects reflecting these various and communal creative practices.”
Among the creators invited to participate were:
John Armleder, Richard Artschwager, Robert Barry, Karen Chekerdjian, Herbert Hamak, Timo Nasseri, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Keith Sonnie
