Today we recommend and announce in advance an exhibition that you cannot miss. As part of the architecture cycle that Ivorypress celebrates annually in the fall as the start of the artistic season, Ivorypress hosts, starting on September 5, 2012, the Zaha Hadid exhibition.

Beyond Boundaries, Art and Design. The exhibition presents an overview of the artistic production of the architect Zaha Hadid (Baghdad, Iraq, 1950), in which her personal and unorthodox vision of her world is reflected.

Hadid's aesthetic dynamite tradition, in the vein of visionary figures like Leonardo da Vinci and Frederick Kiesler. The work of this architect, who was the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2004, goes beyond building design and encompasses drawing, painting, relief, sculpture and installations, as well as furniture and objects. As described by the exhibition's curator, the American Kenny Schachter, in Hadid's gaze "art, design and architecture merge to explore aesthetic limits in as many forms and ways as one can imagine".

In Schachter's words, "what is really inspiring and intriguing about Zaha Hadid's work is the imagination, the inventiveness and the insatiable expression of curiosity and creativity." From a naturalistic and humanistic sensibility, Hadid "challenges pigeonholing in a world increasingly characterized by uniformity", underlines the curator.

Some of Zaha Hadid's recent works, such as the MAXXI: National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome or the London Aquatics Center for the 2012 Olympic Games, are examples of how the Iraqi architect launched a challenge to create a fluid and complex space. It is a way of approaching architectural work that transforms our vision of the future with new concepts and visionary forms, as can also be seen in buildings such as the Guangzhou Opera House theatre in China or the Hoenheim Nord Terminus interchange in Strasbourg.

From her London-based studio, Zaha Hadid Architects, the architect takes that same creative approach to objects such as bags, cutlery, jewellery, decorative objects or pieces of furniture, such as the Zephyr sofa or the Liquid Glacial table. These last two pieces, along with a wide selection of works –installations, models, paintings, drawings, furniture and even domestic objects–, will make up the exhibition that proposes a vision of horizontal structure, “according to which a building is seen with the same light and it is given as much importance as a spoon”, says the curator of the exhibition, which can be visited at Ivorypress until November 3.

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Kenny Schachter.
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Ivorypress Space I - C/ Comandante Zorita 46. Madrid, Spain.
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From September 5 to November 3, 2012.
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Zaha Hadid, (Bagdad, 31 October 1950 – Miami, 31 March 2016) founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize (considered to be the Nobel Prize of architecture) in 2004 and is internationally known for both her theoretical and academic work.

Each of her dynamic and innovative projects builds on over thirty years of revolutionary exploration and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design. Hadid’s interest lies in the rigorous interface between architecture, landscape and geology as her practice integrates natural topography and human-made systems, leading to experimentation with cutting-edge technologies. Such a process often results in unexpected and dynamic architectural forms.

Education: Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977.

Teaching: She became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. Since then she has held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois, School of Architecture, Chicago; guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg; the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Awards: Zaha Hadid’s work of the past 30 years was the subject of critically-acclaimed retrospective exhibitions at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2006, London’s Design Museum in 2007 and the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy in 2009. Her recently completed projects include the MAXXI Museum in Rome; which won the Stirling award in 2010. Hadid’s outstanding contribution to the architectural profession continues to be acknowledged by the most world’s most respected institutions. She received the prestigious ‘Praemium Imperiale’ from the Japan Art Association in 2009, and in 2010, the Stirling Prize – one of architecture’s highest accolades – from the Royal Institute of British Architects. Other recent awards include UNESCO naming Hadid as an ‘Artist for Peace’ at a ceremony in their Paris headquarters last year. Also in 2010, the Republic of France named Hadid as ‘Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ in recognition of her services to architecture, and TIME magazine included her in their 2010 list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’. This year’s ‘Time 100’ is divided into four categories: Leaders, Thinkers, Artists and Heroes – with Hadid ranking top of the Thinkers category.

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Published on: July 2, 2012
Cite: "Zaha Hadid, Beyond Boundaries, Art and Design, in MADRID" METALOCUS. Accessed
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