Interval: TYPOPASS.

Cri­ti­cal de­sign and con­cep­tu­al ty­po­gra­phy.

At­ti­la Co­so­van, Kai Ber­nau, And­re­as Fo­ga­ra­si, Dejan Krsic, Tibor Kál­mán, Lajos Kas­sák, Lász­ló Mo­holy-Nagy, Mon­tage (edi­ted by Flo­ri­an Pum­hösl), Boris Ond­re­ic­ka, Gábor Pa­lo­tai, Gábor Papp, Plá­gi­um 2000, Ka­tar­ina Sevic, So­ci­é­té Ré­a­l­is­te, Mla­den Sti­li­no­vic, SZAF (Judit Fis­cher, Mik­lós Mécs), Ziga Tes­ten, Mo­dern Hun­ga­ri­an ty­po­gra­phy­his­to­ry – comp­li­ed by Már­ton Orosz, Ar­tist pub­li­ca­tions from Po­land (Ste­fan The­mer­son, Andr­zej Par­tum, Jan Berdy­szak, Ja­ros­law Koz­lows­ki, Sta­nis­law Drózdz, Zyg­munt Pi­oT­rows­ki, Fabry­ka, Tango, Luxus and ot­hers) se­lec­ted and lent by Piotr Ryp­son, Vik­tor Kótun’s se­lec­ti­on of ar­tist pub­li­ca­tions from the coll­ec­ti­on of Art­pool Re­se­arch Cen­ter, and furt­her pub­li­ca­tions

The Oc­to­ber show of the In­ter­val se­ri­es turns to the over­laps of con­tem­por­ary vi­su­al art and de­sign, fo­cus­ing in par­ti­cu­lar on ty­po­gra­phy as a vi­su­al lan­gu­age. Co-or­ga­ni­zed with tran­zit.hu, the in­ter­na­ti­o­nal ex­hi­bit will have three ve­nues: Labor, Do­rottya Gal­lery and Pla­tán Gal­lery.

How does cri­ti­cal de­sign emer­ge, this at­tempt to coun­ter con­su­mer cul­tu­re with a so­ci­ally cri­ti­cal cons­ci­o­us­ness, with the int­ent­ion not only to serve cus­to­mers, but also to shape vi­su­al cul­tu­re, even the whole of cul­tu­re and so­ci­ety? A utopi­an app­ro­ach to de­sign first ap­peared in the mo­der­nist mo­ve­ments, quest­ion­ing the or­na­men­tal func­ti­on of de­sign and li­n­ing it up for so­ci­al/po­li­ti­cal goals. The six­ti­es and se­ven­ti­es saw the ap­pe­arance of anti-de­sign; as a means of exp­r­es­sing a cri­ti­cal at­ti­tu­de, more and more ar­tists turned to ama­teur, DIY so­lu­tions. Today, the de­sign ele­ments that were ori­gi­n­ally crea­ted out of po­li­ti­cal and so­ci­al com­mit­ment have be­co­me fre­ely in­terc­han­geab­le sty­lis­tic ele­ments, de­vi­ces of mar­ke­ting, mak­ing the po­li­ti­cal de­co­ding and cons­ci­o­us use of the di­ver­se vi­su­al idi­oms as the pos­sib­le ave­nue for the cri­ti­cal app­ro­ach. The ex­hi­bit­ion pre­sents the his­to­ri­cal and con­tem­por­ary pro­jects and pub­li­ca­tions from the bo­un­dary of de­sign and the vi­su­al arts in three gro­ups: Ty­po­gra­phi­cal utopi­as, Anti- and Pa­ral­lel De­sign, Sub­ver­sive de­sign.

The three-part disp­lay will be ac­com­pa­ni­ed by prog­ram­mes, furt­her in­for­ma­ti­on on which can be found at www.​tran­zit.​org and www.​me­tat­ron.​sh/​koz­tes­ido.

tran­zit.hu – The Tran­zit con­tem­por­ary art event is sup­port­ed by Erste Bank Group. The ex­hi­bit­ion and the event se­ri­es are part of the in­ter­na­ti­o­nal pro­ject Art Al­ways Has Its Con­se­qu­en­ces, which re­ce­i­ves a grant from the Cul­tu­re 2007 prog­ramme of the Euro­pe­an Union.