Space -- Exhibition

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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 way 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 of the exhibition space, the lighting, and the design of the display facilities. Exhibits need an appropriate backdrop to enhance their appeal, and excellent exhibition design can also become the exhibit itself. Hong Kong designer ADO uses curtains to divide the exhibition space into different areas, creating a maze-like, enigmatic exhibition space that has become one of the outstanding installation works in international multimedia exhibitions. The 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 flexible 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, reflecting the new trend of mutual permeation and overlap between the art and commercial fields in exhibition design. This issue of "Space" has collected twenty-seven outstanding exhibition designs, including trade shows, semi-commercial/semi-art promotional exhibitions, and pure artistic gallery projects, covering numerous cities such as Hannover, Cologne, Munich, Geneva, Cannes, London, Los Angeles, Toronto, Seoul, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, etc.