{"id":254,"date":"2011-06-13T14:35:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T06:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beijingcenterforthearts.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2021-10-26T16:52:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T08:52:44","slug":"designingdesignkenyahara","status":"publish","type":"art_creation","link":"http:\/\/ideas.site\/en\/art-creation\/designingdesignkenyahara\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing Design \u2013 The Exhibition of Kenya Hara in China 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">China Debut of Kenya Hara with the panorama of Japanese Design <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Beijing Center for the Arts is pleased to present \u201cDesigning Design\u201d- Japanese design guru Kenya Hara\u2019s first major solo show in China from June 13 till July 15, to add to the hot streak list of BCA\u2019s well-reputed series of cross-disciplinary design shows and events, such as \u201cUn-natural\u201d, \u201c3D City: Future China\u201d, \u201cOmni-dimensional Design in China\u201d and \u201cArts China \u00b7 Design Forum\u201d etc.. As a result of 3-year\u2019s endeavor of preparation and the joined efforts by the artistic director Ms. Weng Ling, curator Zhu E, Tang Jing and the designers, the exhibition attempts to offer a full trace to follow Kenya Hara\u2019s creative ideas and career, as well as a distinctive overview of the nucleus of Japan\u2019s design industry, through a voluminous display of design objects and documentations. Viewers can also get a glimpse of the latest experimental semi-finished design prototypes, which will definitely bring to mind storms of ideas and inspirations on the future of human\u2019s living.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The exhibition will divide a space of 2,000sqm into three sections: Exhibitions of the Exhibition, through object display, epitomizes the pearls of the 7 shows curated by Hara on the ultimate endeavor to explore the possibility of \u201cthe nature of things\u201d with his Japanese colleagues such as Kengo Kuma, Naoto Fukasawa and Shigeru Ban etc.; Art directing of MUJI is a vivid narrative on the design practices by Hara through the perfect integration of his distinctive Japanese esthetics into corporate development; Multiphase of Design serves as a retrospective of Hara\u2019s creative adventures with a full showcase of his package design, logo design, book design and poster design, some of which are from projects involved with China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">What is design and what is the capacity of graphic design? What are the problems confronting the contemporary Chinese design? The age of creativity has already been on the doormat when China\u2019s gigantic economy vehicle is racing on the fast lane. With the unprecedented significance attached to \u201cDesign\u201d, an important topic emerges on how to keep its development on a healthy track and especially to foster and maintain the contemporary Chinese humanistic values. Enjoying a reputation of an international design power, Japanese design, in the last decades, has been featuring a vivid embodiment of its own culture, a great effort to the maintenance of a sound social order, an effective transformation into productivity, and a catching influence on the international design trend and life style. Such a panoramic study of Japanese design serves as a precious reference for China\u2019s design development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Beijing Center for the Arts has been dedicated to the art promotion of art and culture, as well as the thriving of new Chinese design, which is identified as one of the most potential core values for China\u2019s culture renaissance. \u201cDesigning Design\u201d is homage paid to the Japanese designers, also an invitation sent out to the Chinese counterparts, with the earnest wish and appeal that the energy and passion can beat the lethargy of the current design industry and set our feet on a new adventure for a better tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":255,"template":"","categories":[1],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ideas.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/art_creation\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ideas.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/art_creation"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ideas.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/art_creation"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ideas.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ideas.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ideas.site\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}