press file
17 October 2014
A MATTER OF PERCEPTION
An exhibition in celebration of 10 Years
of DAMN° magazine at the 24th edition
of Biennale Interieur
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A MAGAZINE ON CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
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other things...
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10 YEARS DAMN°
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Press moments
Friday 17 October, 19:00 - 21:00 & Saturday 18 October 10:00 - 12:00
Opening cocktail Saturday 18 October, 18:30
Venue Broeltoren, Broelkaai, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium
Opening hours 17– 26 October, 12:00 – 21:00
Press & communication
Tine Verschaeve [email protected] +32 473 68 14 06
Andrea Branzi /
Michael Anastassiades /
Carsten Höller /
Marc Held /
Adrian Ghenie /
R. Buckminster Fuller /
Nucleo /
Anton Alvarez /
Emilie Baltz /
Kobe Desramaults /
2014 marks the first decade of DAMN°. In October 2004 we sailed
into Kortrijk for Interieur on our largely trusty barge, to launch a
magazine that made true connections rather than perfunctory
parallels with the many worlds of design, architecture, and art. Older,
wiser, wonderful-er, and not at all weary of questioning evolution or
revolution, we return to the Biennale to celebrate our anniversary on
dry, yet fertile ground, at an event that expresses our curious core
and the tales we have told about creators & inventors, designers &
architects, artists & photographers, thinkers & tinkerers, romancers
& adventurers, masters & pupils, storytellers & dreamers. Economic
crisis? Death of print? Gloria Gaynor made a song for us…
EUR 12 E UK 11 £
Join us in the count down to the November 10th release on
kinnarps.com/trend
TECHITURE
Food and
other things...
SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2014 - OFFICE OF DISPOSAL 9000 GENT X - P509314
Visualizing more visual spaces
A MAGAZINE ON CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2014
Featuring exclusive objects & visual offerings
made by international creatives especially
for DAMN°’s anniversary, and a site-specific
installation of Michael Anastassiades’s String
Lights and IC Lights by Flos, along with Jan
Kath’s Erased Heritage collection.
Andrea Branzi /
Michael Anastassiades /
Carsten Höller /
Marc Held /
Adrian Ghenie /
R. Buckminster Fuller /
Nucleo /
Anton Alvarez /
Emilie Baltz /
Kobe Desramaults /
10 yrs
A MATTER OF PERCEPTION
A Matter of Perception brings an exhibition featuring exclusive objects
& visual offerings in an unusual setting - the fittingly un-ivory like Broel
Tower (Broeltoren) in Kortrijk. As well as presenting exclusive works
produced by some of our creative conspirators, such as Humberto
Campana, Jasper Morrison, Martí Guixé, Alberto Alessi, Alfredo
Häberli, Michael Young, Denise Scott Brown, Julien De Smedt,
Luke Pearson, Didier Faustino and Daniel González, we are also
showing many other unique pieces, all in a scenography designed and
installed by vormen.
BID & BUY
DAMN° wants to make the exclusive inclusive. You have the
opportunity to take a little part of our birthday history home with
you. All the objects and visual offerings that feature in A Matter
of Perception are available to bid for & buy. Simply follow the
instructions in the accompanying exhibition catalogue. A genuine
one-time offer, both private & public, to rehouse the creative minds
of some of the world’s leading designers, artists & architects.
How to bid&buy?
Private: Please fill in the form at the bottom of each exhibitor’s page
in the catalogue with the amount you would like to bid. Tear off the
perforated strip and drop it in the Bid Box.
Public: Mark your bid on the panel under the work with the pencil we
provide and strike out the competition.
Bids start at 250 EUR. and close at 6pm on the 25 October.
Robert Stadler: Posto 8.5, 2006
Didier Faustino: Love Songs for Riots, 2013
View online catalogue & practical details:
http://www.damnmagazine.net/data/files/OnlineCatalogue.pdf
MANIFESTOS
And as evangelists of the word, to takeaway but not to throwaway,
we offer a selection of the manifestos written over the years by the
likes of Ingo Maurer, Olafur Eliasson, Daan Roosegaarde, Lowie
Vermeersch, Jurgen Bey, Sissel Tolaas, Alessandro Sarfatti,
Kobe Desramaults, and others.
Formafantasma: Craftica, 2014
Honoré d’O: porte-bonheur claudine, 2010
10 yrs
FLOS, JAN KATH & EMECO
DAMN° also has a big smile on its collective face in welcoming its
cohorts. Flos is perfectly at home within the poetry of the setting.
The renowned Italian lighting company occupies all three floors
of the Broeltoren. Michael Anastassiades’s IC Lights greet visitors
on the ground floor and an installation of his String Lights for Flos
is presented on the first floor, creating a sensorial experience that
promises to embed itself in the visitor’s memory. Meanwhile, from
Germany, Jan Kath weaves homage and inspiration in the Erased
Heritage collection, with the reimagined Oriental carpet coming to
land in the tower of power. Furthermore, DAMN° invites Emeco to
the tower to celebrate 70 years of the Navy Chair, first built for use
on submarines in 1944. Within its famous 77-step process, the chair
is crafted with soft, recycled aluminium: in other words, sustainable
and a chair for life. Congrats…!
DIVINE & GLORIOUS
And, oh yeah, there is divine wine and glorious food. Rapunzel will
be there shaving all her hair off, too!
PARTNERS
Flos, Gaggenau, Jan Kath, Emeco, Piper-Heidsieck,
Biennale Interieur, Stad Kortrijk and the Flemish Architecture Institute
INTERIEUR GUIDE
DAMN° will also be omnipresent at the Xpo and throughout Kortrijk
in the form of its fifth INTERIEUR guide. A handy vademecum
featuring – and in collaboration with – the Biennale & the city, with a
DAMnshot of its special on/off programme, the voice of exhibitors
and our take on the curator’s view.
10 yrs
Hi-res images
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9017512/10yrs_press_file.zip
For additional visual material contact Claudine De Pauw
[email protected]
DAMN° good idea?
What to put a face to the name? The DAMN° team is present in the
tower on Saturday & Sunday. If you are interested in meeting with
the owners/founders, Siegrid Demyttenaere & Walter Bettens, please
contact [email protected].
Walter Bettens: co-editor & owner / business manager
0032477/549095
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Siegrid Demyttenaere: co-editor & owner / art director
0032477/600723
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Bessaam El-Asmar: marketing manager / business developer
0049176/32749677
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Emma Firmin: editor at large special publications
0032476/941339
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Veerle Devos: digital editor
0032479/911554
[email protected]
Tine Verschaeve: press & communication
0032 473 68 14 06
[email protected]
www.damnmagazine.net