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[…] there, and after a successful grant application, she finally travelled to Mexico again. CaSa was inaugurated in 2006. Since then, it has been an art centre with exhibitions, shop and workshops. To get to CaSa, which is housed in an old textile factory from the 1870s, you have to hail a taxi out of […]
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- Outlook
- Subjects:
- Colors ●
- International
- Textile
Milano, New York, Toronto, Warszawa … When the exhibition machine started Exhibitions of Danish design are wildly popular, but that is not a new phenomenon. Since the Great Exhibition in 1851 at Crystal Palace in London, companies, craft makers and designers have used exhibitions and trade fairs to market their products and designs. These […]
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[…] Around 1800, the term kunstflid (literally: ‘art craft’) was used to highlight the field’s aesthetic and professional aspects in contrast to husflid (literally: ‘home craft’). The earliest exhibitions were labelled kunstflid exhibitions, but later, the term industrial exhibitions was adopted, following the French example. In any case, they included all types of production, and […]
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- Education
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- Artistic craft ●
- Craft ●
- Design
- History
[…] the designer’s mission of developing rational standard solutions for everyday use. ‘It hardly makes sense that most of us would be compelled to produce new items for exhibitions almost every single year.’ At the same time, however, PH was enough of a showman to accept that designers should not spurn this public attention. The […]
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- Artistic craft ●
- Communication ●
- Craft ●
- Design ●
- Sustainability
[…] articles about both arts and crafts. Several new associations for crafts, handicrafts and decorative arts continued the artistic elevation of both popular tastes and ongoing experimentation through exhibitions, large-scale decorative and interior projects and, from 1915, the Skønvirke journal. As Gelfer-Jørgensen explains, the term skønvirke was coined by the head of the School of […]
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- Durability
- Subjects:
- History ●
- Literature
- Theory
They have succeeded in organising an exhibition that combines pedagogy and point. Sometimes things go wrong when exhibitions are curated with an overly didactic approach. The result can be almost overwhelming. But in ‘Ødeland’, the narrative is extremely successful. With examples of fragments and pulverised materials processed in different ways as a prerequisite for […]
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- Scenes of Crafts
- Subjects:
- ceramics ●
- Circulation ●
- Glass ●
- Porcelain ●
- Reusability
- Sustainability
Artist residencies, international exhibitions, inspirational travelling, jobs, and collaborative projects. Danish craft artists and designers have a great tradition of looking abroad for development, collaboration opportunities and insight. Both in their own practice and in understanding the world's different materials, techniques and cultures. As early as the 1950s, Sigvard Bernadotte and architect Acton Bjørn […]
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- Outlook
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- Identity
- International
