Surreal Things, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
The exhibit explores the Surrealists collaborations with the commercial fields of design, advertising, fashion, architecture, film and theatre. This exhibit has already made the rounds in Europe (including London and Bilbao), but for its North American run, enhancements have been made. Key loans of works by Dali, Miro, Magritte, etc. have been made by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Conneticut, as well as 14 surrealist works from the AGO itself.
Fashion has been a long time lover of surrealism and the collaborations have been numerous. With rumours of a Schiaparelli relaunch, we can bet her work (and collaborations) are on a lot of designers minds. Particularly from this exhibit, we see the costume designs of de Chirico for the Ballets Russes inspiring perhaps Marc Jacobs. The Dali brooch screams Sonia Rykiel.
Bauhaus; A Conceptual Model, Martin-Gropius-Bau Exhibition Hall, Berlin
With over 1000 examples of the school's work, this is the largest ever Bauhaus retrospective. The Bauhaus School is an emotional subject for Berlin, having opened and flourished in 1919, and shut down by the Nazi Government in 1933. The exhibition goes far beyond the familiar Bauhaus Industrial Design style, showing also things like paper cuttings by students and expressionist painting by teachers.
We can see designers being inspired by architectural drawings for prints. Maybe the Bauhaus design concepts of functionality and simplicity will inspire designers to take a more minimalistic approach next season.
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