Karim Rashid: From 15 Minutes into the Future
Exhibition
The wit of the Ego vase is unusually prickly for Rashid but its basic impulse — a twist on the familiar that encourages an adventurous imagining of the yet-to-come — runs throughout his practice and underpins the decision to invite him for the Professional Gallery’s inaugural design exhibition.
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Curator: Charles Reeve
Exhibition Information/Summary:
“The wit of the Ego vase is unusually prickly for Rashid but its basic impulse — a twist on the familiar that encourages an adventurous imagining of the yet-to-come — runs throughout his practice and underpins the decision to invite him for the Professional Gallery’s inaugural design exhibition. Since Rashid has built on his time teaching at OCAD during the early 1990s to become one of today’s most influential designers, it made sense for us to mark his accomplishment with his first solo exhibition in Canada in nearly two decades. Beyond that, his straddling of professions (designer, architect, brand consultant, contributing editor) and his playful questioning of preconceptions dovetails with the Professional Gallery’s goal to engage with contemporary art and design as a way of unsettling expectations of what a gallery can be.”
- Charles Reeve
Publication:
Karim Rashid Onsite Gallery Publication Pdf
Public Program Events (list with description if needed):
- Friday, November 9, 6:30 p.m. Free.
- Designer’s Talk with Karim Rashid
