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Leg Chair 2008 Re-used furniture elements 45 x 50 x 81cm Box-drawer 01 2008 Melamine faced chipboard and re-used furniture elements 80 x 58 x 162cm Box-drawer 02 2008 Melamine faced chipboard and re-used furniture elements 80 x 58 x 162cm Robot Chair 2008 Melamine faced chipboard and re-used furniture elements 177 x 59 x 184cm Robot Chair 2008 Melamine faced chipboard and re-used furniture elements 177 x 59 x 184cm Chair Shelf 2008 Melamine faced chipboard and re-used furniture elements 150 x 52 x 192cm Swivel Chair 2008 Melamine faced chipboard and re-used furniture elements 60 x 50 x 82cm Krampus 2008 Melamine faced chipboard and re-used furniture elements 47 x 45 x 100cm Bench Chair 2008 Melamine faced chipboard and re-used furniture elements 136 x 55 x 80cm Chair with Shelves 2008 Melamine faced chipboard and re-used furniture elements 150 x 52 x 192cm Box Cupboard with Chair 2008 Melamine faced chipboard and re-used furniture elements 210 x 65 x 200cm Bench-cupboard 2008 Melamine faced chipboard and re-used furniture elements 243 x 114 x 99cm Totem 2008 Melamine faced chipboard and re-used furniture elements 185 x 90 x 275cm Wouldn't It Be Nice... at Centre d'Art Contemporain Exhibition View Wouldn't It Be Nice... at Centre d'Art Contemporain Exhibition View Wouldn't It Be Nice... at Centre d'Art Contemporain Exhibition View Wouldn't It Be Nice... at Centre d'Art Contemporain Exhibition View Wouldn't It Be Nice... at Centre d'Art Contemporain Exhibition View

Wouldn’t It Be Nice...

26 Oct – 16 Dec 2007
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Ch

8 Feb – 25 May 2008
Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich, Ch

Sep – Dec 2008
Somerset House, London, Uk

Art and design have had an enduringly productive relationship. Artists and designers, as well as graphic artists, fashion designers, and architects, share common strategies, methods, and aims. While some artists employ design strategies to make socially critical statements, others use design as a way of reflecting everyday phenomena, emotions, or conceptual approaches. Many designers on the other hand, having dispensed with any belief in the ideal of neutrality, intervene increasingly in social, political, ethical, or ecological discourses. This exhibition confronts ten contemporary positions on the edge of reality, on the border of what is possible.

A group show with Jurgen Bey, Bless, Dexter Sinister, Dunne & Raby, Michael Anastasiades, Alisa Framis, Martino Gamper, Ryan Gander, Marti Guixe, Tobias Rehberger and Superflex. Taken from the press release.

Exhibition curated by Emily King and Katya Garcia-Anton

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Images ©Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Exhibition Photography ©Francis Ware, Furniture Photography ©Angus Mill