Aside from the spanakopita from Filo, we’re expecting the highlight of Friday’s opening reception for our new exhibition, Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art, and Collaborative Design, to be curator Vladimir Belogolovsky’s gallery talk at 6:00pm. Belogolovsky, founder of the New York-based Intercontinental Curatorial Project, developed the exhibition with Penelope Seidler and Harry Seidler & Associates in Sydney. He’ll go into more depth on Seidler’s legacy the next morning, through an illustrated lecture.
Belogolovsky says, “Seidler’s vision was grand and he drew his inspiration from a multitude of sources – art, geometry, history, and so on. I would particularly stress the importance of art as an endless source of creative inspiration for architecture.”
Walter Gropius & Harry Seidler
In addition to being a confluence point for seminal modernist artists and thinkers, Black Mountain College extended and refocused the Bauhaus union of functionality and craftsmanship, ultimately influencing modernist design and architecture. Its holistic pedagogy emphasized the intersection of material and design studies. At Black Mountain College, Harry Seidler studied with Josef Albers, and became a major proponent of Bauhaus principles of design, which incorporated this holistic sensibility.
Join us at at the reception:
June 14th, 5:30pm – 7:30pm. Admission is free for members and students, $3.00 for non-members.
And at the illustrated presentation:
June 15th, 10:00am. This presentation is free and open to the public.
Find more details about the exhibition and accompanying programming here.
