Final Days - Austrian Design Visions in Barcelona

Hurry up, the final countdown to see my exhibition on Austrian Design at the renown design center ADI-FAD in Barcelona is ticking. The show "Surprising Ingenuity" presents more than 30 designoriented companies and designers from Austria, including Swarovski, Bene, MAM, KTM and Red Bull as well as EOOS, Cabiljo, formquadrat, spirit design and Kiska. Without wanting to create an artificial "national" design proposition, there is still some common grounds: an obsession with technical challenges (see engines from AVL), a love for materials (special steel from Böhler and glass works by Lobmeyr) and a reduced, yes even minimal formal language, clear and clean esthetics that is charged with humour, double meaning and emotion. The show is still on until Saturday, 30th of April, 2011 at ADI-FAD at Plaza del Angel in the historic city centre of Barcelona. Opening hours: 11 am - 8pm.