"Bad Boy, Good Girl?"

Centered on the creations of maverick Dutch design-artist Ted Noten, the June 5 - July 4 exhibition at the design-e-space gallery adds a second dimension by juxtaposing a few, somewhat uncharacteristic works by the highly successful young designer Kiki van Eijk, who was once Ted Noten's student in Eindhoven.

The show attempts to explore gender differences in conceptual approaches to design. The touchy issues of political correctness and political controversy are addressed in highly personal ways by the 2 artists. At least in this selection of artists and works, it looks like "boys will be boys". It is not that Kiki's works are less daring or controversial than Ted's pieces, but we seem to have here a palpable difference in world views.

Ted Noten's signature mischievous, "politically incorrect", sometimes amusing and sometimes shocking art stands in contrast to the lyrical, elegant and -uncharacteristically for her- rather gloomy pieces by Kiki van Eijk.




CONTAMINATION!
Globalisation, Transformation, Mutation

From September 12 to October 11, 2008, concomitant with Venice's Architecture Biennial, the design-e-space gallery will present works by 7 young designers from 5 countries.
They are: the Venetian designer Federica Fulici; Brunno Jahara, a Brazilian-born designer living in Venice; Daria Shashorina from Moscow; Hunn Wai, a Singaporean born in London who resides in several countries; and 3 members of the Dutch group "The Green Dogs": Rosalie Bak, Lola Hesp, Liesbeth Huizing.
Among the works that will be on view: (continued)




Gallery Artists

design-e-space presents a selection of works by the artists of the gallery: Joost van Bleiswijk, Kiki van Eijk, Ted Noten and Shan-Shan Sheng.




Ted Noten

Ted Noten calls himself a jeweller. He likes to see his creations come to life in the interactions between people who wear them and people who watch those who wear them. Ted worries that his work would wither away and die if he hangs it up on the walls of galleries as art pieces. The best way to describe his difficult to classify creations could be "wearable conceptual art pieces". (continued)




Kiki van Eijk - Joost van Bleiswijk -
Shan-Shan Sheng

The inaugural exhibition of the design-e-space gallery in Venice presents the work of 3 young but already accomplished artists-designers.

The designers, though working in different media, with different techniques and sensibilities, have in common a desire to reinterpret tradition.
The main theme of the show can be defined as détournement, the diversion of materials. (continued)