Munich Villa Stuck shows "A Big Announcement"
Created: 06/10/2022, 17:37
By: Michael Schleicher
You can “see beautiful shapes” in his exhibition “A Big Announcement”, says Bernd Kuechenbeiser.
For example the LP covers for Amiga designed by Christoph Ehbets.
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Berndkuchenbeiser is one of the most important German book and record designers.
Now he has set up the exhibition "A Big Announcement" in the Munich Villa Stuck.
Let's think for a moment about a material that in many ways is the opposite of paper: concrete.
The Springer & Jacoby agency gave it a new image in the 1980s, with the wonderful slogan "It depends on what you make of it." And - bang!
– with that we are already in the middle of the Villa Stuck, where the new show “A Big Announcement” is opening.
It can be seen in the building at Prinzregentenstraße 60 until January 15, 2023.
"A Big Announcement" runs until January 15, 2023 at Villa Stuck
This is about a lot of paper, but above all it is about the question of what man and woman have made of it, i.e. how it is printed, cut, stapled, folded, laid and presented.
In this way, “A Big Announcement” tells a subtle and vivid story about a – small – part of design history.
Bernd Kuchenbeiser curated "A Big Announcement".
This exhibition, which is more sensuous than some might assume and which rarely comes across as cerebral, was conceived by Bernd Kuechebeiser.
The Munich designer is not only one of the most important German designers of books and records.
In the Villa Stuck he also shows exactly this: books and records.
And because he's also obviously a reserved person, there's no one-man show here.
Cake Beiser understands design as a kind of social action - he does not believe in the one God of design, who is relieved of all things, but rather relies on dialogue and exchange.
John Baldessari provides the structure in the Villa Stuck
The show he curated is a tour, past works by colleagues and role models.
More precisely: a tour from a bird's eye view.
Because the tables with the objects are just half a meter from the floor, so that the eye can actually wander, survey and relate very pleasantly.
The rooms, designed with "simple materials" (Kuchenbeiser) that are used in book production, i.e. primarily paper and thread, are loosely structured based on words from the poem "Marilyn's Dress" by John Baldessari (1931-2020).
Above all, however, all the book titles, justifications and LPs ensure that there are always new discoveries and thus fun for typography inventors, the good spirits of design and every design dervish.
