In February 2008 MOCAD organized
two simultaneous exhibitions - Holy Hip-Hop! New Paintings by Alex
Melamid and ReFusing Fashion: Rei Kawakubo. Lana Cavar
came to Detroit to work on the design of exhibition materials for the
shows. Basically we treated the two shows separately and the only place
they come together is on MOCAD's garage door. The Melamid show was comprised
of 12 oil paintings of hip-hop stars and it was in a way much more straightforward
than the Kawakubo show. For the Kawakubo show we made a series of posters
that were hung at evenly spaced intervals around the museum to lead people
into the exhibit. Inside the exhibit there were about 30 posters that
made up a timeline of Rei Kawakubo's life that ran around the outer wall
of the exhibit. The poster-like thing is the gallery guide that was printed
to go with the show. It folds down to 8.5 x 11" and has pictures of all
the clothes and print ephemera in the show. (2008) |
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