Thursday 17 April 2014

OUGD602 // BCNMCR Exhibition



Barcelona & Manchester exhibition at twenty twenty two has been a massive event which has been taking place over the last month. Along with the exhibition they held talks, I wanted to go to these but Dialogue was on the same night so unfortunately I couldn't.

Whilst I was in Manchester at the studio visit, I thought I might as well go along and have a look at the work, the exhibition space is just around the corner from the studio so it fit in well. The exhibition showcases work from studios and designers abroad. It was really interesting to see, because all the artwork was placed in different rooms within a bar and ping pong room. Even though I initially didn't think it would work, it was great to see and fit the style of the bar. Work was hung on the walls within frames, but there was a side room off the bar which had the work pinned up on wooden structures - this was great to see and a really good way to present the work.

The styles of the work were all different, but all equally as good as each other, some were vector based, other images and some were some really nice shots of branding. As a whole the work looked really good and there was a lot of it.









The side room had work displayed on wooden stands. 




Within this area there was a small room at the side which was all enclosed, when you walked in there were two images on the wall, with a sign to turn the light off. 


Images on the wall with the light turned on.


When you turned the light off the image was exposed to the light and completely changed. This was amazing! I stood there for ages turning the light on and off trying to figure out how it was done.

I think its to do with light sensitive inks, as the posters were screen-printed. 



Twenty Twenty Two - a great venue for an exhibition like this. Definitely have to go back again to see future exhibitions.



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