Karim Rashid
04 - 22 Aug 2009
KARIM RASHID
“Blobular World”
4 August - 22 August
With over 300 designs in production and 300 awards, the egiptian designer Karim Rashid opens a solo exhibition at Galeria Luisa Strina with a series of paintings and plastic sculptures created through an industrial process. One of the most renowed designers of his generation, the diversity of his production allows for a mixture of ideias, materials, behaviors, aesthetics from one typology to the next, crossing boundaries and broadening horizons.
At Luisa Strina Gallery, the exhibition "Blobular World" illustrates Karim's philosophies and theories in Pleasurtroniks, the Blobject, globjectism, globalism, essensualism, technorganiks, infosthetiks, digitalia, and orgonomiks. His works seeks to communicate and inspire positive experiences through a marriage of organic forms and a technology that allows us to morph, twist, and blend our concepts.
According to the designer, this new technological age has shown us digitally inspired language existing with the realm of hand made art. Karim explains, "Digital craft's new forms and colors can sooth an inspire us more so than the antiquated ornamentation, sculpting, styling derivates of the past. Technological tools inspire me to make forms as sensual, as human, as evocative, as sculptural as possible but through new shapes that were historically impossible to make.
“Blobular World”
4 August - 22 August
With over 300 designs in production and 300 awards, the egiptian designer Karim Rashid opens a solo exhibition at Galeria Luisa Strina with a series of paintings and plastic sculptures created through an industrial process. One of the most renowed designers of his generation, the diversity of his production allows for a mixture of ideias, materials, behaviors, aesthetics from one typology to the next, crossing boundaries and broadening horizons.
At Luisa Strina Gallery, the exhibition "Blobular World" illustrates Karim's philosophies and theories in Pleasurtroniks, the Blobject, globjectism, globalism, essensualism, technorganiks, infosthetiks, digitalia, and orgonomiks. His works seeks to communicate and inspire positive experiences through a marriage of organic forms and a technology that allows us to morph, twist, and blend our concepts.
According to the designer, this new technological age has shown us digitally inspired language existing with the realm of hand made art. Karim explains, "Digital craft's new forms and colors can sooth an inspire us more so than the antiquated ornamentation, sculpting, styling derivates of the past. Technological tools inspire me to make forms as sensual, as human, as evocative, as sculptural as possible but through new shapes that were historically impossible to make.