The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris brings back to life this memorable decade via an expansive exhibition, where design, trend, and graphics are the standard-bearers of all fantasies.
The 1980s have been tinged with paradox, but maintained an unparalleled degree of creativity, power, and audacity. After the economic growth of the Thirty Superb, the decade resounds in France as “a turning level both political and inventive.” Revolutions occurred, conventions have been shaken up, and the means of expression multiplied. Make method for eccentricity, X-shaped silhouettes, and fluorescent, pop and acidulous colors. It’s not shocking that these years are nonetheless a supply of inspiration for designers in the present day. This is what the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris reminds us by means of this retrospective the place style, design, and graphics have notably distinguished themselves; from the election of Mitterrand in 1981 to the autumn of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
© Jean-Paul Goude / © Photograph : Michel Picard / © Les Arts Décoratifs
Extravagance and emancipation
Seven hundred works (objects, furniture, posters, pictures, clips, report sleeves, and fanzines) shall be introduced to the rhythm of three themes: A New Political and Cultural Era, The Design in Effervescence and The Look of the 80s. The exhibition will concentrate on a new era of designers (Olivier Gagnère, Elizabeth Garouste, Mattia Bonetti, Philippe Starck …) and “superstars” of style (Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler …), promoting, graphic design, and audiovisual (Jean-Paul Goude, Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Étienne Robial). New wave, rock, and hip-hop music, which made the whole of Paris dance, may even discover its place at the heart of the cultural area. The MAD thus places the highlight again on these years of “the pileup of types, spontaneity, and freedom.”
The 80s. Style, design, graphics in France
Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris
October 13, 2022 to April 16, 2023
https://madparis.fr/Annees-80-Mode-design-graphisme-en-France
Nathalie Dassa
L’article THE 80’s, TEN YEARS OF CREATIVITY est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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