Richard Hollis Exhibition
Artists Space
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British graphic designer Richard Hollis (born London, 1934) is a seminal figure in postwar design and communication. Working principally as a general graphic and book designer, yet also authoring influential books on design history, Hollis’ practice can be seen to have played a crucial role in delineating the critical function of graphic design in relation to mass communication. As designer of the book accompanying John Berger’s epochal 1972 BBC TV series Ways of Seeing, he made manifest the political dimensions of pictures in the relationship between image and text. Equally, his work for artists, museums and galleries has consistently emphasized radical and contestatory ideas through basic means and layouts.
This exhibition, curated by design historian Emily King with Stuart Bailey, is the first overview of Hollis’ work in the US. Consisting of roughly 100 items drawn from the designer’s archive including finished pieces, layouts, and notes it reflects Hollis’s entire professional life, including his travels in the 1950s and 60s to Cuba, Zurich and Paris, his part in founding a new art school in Bristol in 1964, his role in the design of radical politics in the 1960s and 70s and his career-long investigation of the graphic design of culture.
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Schedule
from September 21, 2013 to November 10, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-09-20 from 18:00 to 20:00