Space: Exhibition

Author: Jiangxi Science and Technology
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: The famous French picture book artist Jean-Jacques Sempe once drew a cartoon like this: Two primitive people in a cave, with wild fire illuminating the cave paintings. One said to the other, "Friend, your painting is really good, but your gallery is a bit dull!" Once upon a time, exhibits were displayed in a primitive manner inside glass cabinets or hung at eye level, everything straightforward and direct; today, sophisticated visitors are no longer satisfied with this simple, even considered rustic, exhibition format. To visit an exhibition, whether in a museum or a conference center, the purpose is to see the exhibits (artworks or products). But the moment you arrive at the venue, what truly moves you is not just the exhibits, but also the layout, lighting, and display design of the exhibition space. Exhibits need an appropriate backdrop to enhance their impact, and excellent exhibition design can itself become part of the exhibit. Hong Kong designer ADO uses curtains to divide the exhibition space into different zones, creating a maze-like, enigmatic exhibition environment that has become one of the outstanding installation works in international multimedia exhibitions. Diverse venue choices have enriched the flexibility of exhibitions. Previously, artworks were only displayed in art museums and galleries, while commercial product exhibitions were confined to formal trade shows. Today, shopping malls and pedestrian streets have become temporary exhibition venues, inspiring more innovative designs to accommodate various exhibition spaces. For example, Toronto design firm 3rd Uncle Design Inc. designed a highly adaptable exhibition model for a touring photography exhibition, including easels and lighting, suitable for shopping malls, conference centers, and public streets. Local designer Marc Chantal Design built a unique small gallery for the luxury brand Swarovski in a large shopping mall, fully showcasing the artistic nature of the products and reflecting the new trend of mutual penetration and overlap between art and commerce in exhibition design. This issue of Space features twenty-seven outstanding exhibition designs, including trade shows, semi-commercial/semi-art promotional exhibitions, and purely artistic museum projects, covering numerous cities such as Hanover, Cologne, Munich, Geneva, Cannes, London, Los Angeles, Toronto, Seoul, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, etc.