Futile Design Exhibitions
“Less use is more” demonstrates the principle of design
A collection of useless objects on display at the Spazio Libero Art Gallery during the Artissima Art Fair in Turin, Italy, begs the question, “What’s the point?”

The JVLT eccentrics exhibition is called “Less is More,” and illustrates “adize,” a principle invented by its creators. “If design produces function, then Adizein produces Dis/function, and so now all my work is focused on designing [] an object close to Art, where meaning is the real purpose of the object,” says Andrea Maragno of JVLT.

Each of the eight objects in the exhibition is presented without its essential components. For example, the chair coming out of the gallery has no seat or back. And the lamp in the third image has no bulb or lampshade.

These useless objects glorify dysfunction and imperfection, while challenging our ideas about the traditional purpose of these objects.

Selfish Exhibitions
Dazed Gallery in London concludes a year of creative and diverse exhibitions and events with a unique selfie exhibition called “The Selfie,” described as “absurd.”

The concept behind “Selfie” is to show the work of photographers “whose practices are so decidedly at odds with each other that the very idea of a ‘group’ show seems absurd,” explains John-Paul Pryor of Dazed Digital.

“The selfie” was inspired by a quote from photographer Damien Fry, who said at the show that “all people are ultimately selfish.”

“The photographer is the director and the executioner,” Fry explained. “In a society where we all tend to be more selfish and want more, we are the people who visually show you what you should want and how you can achieve it.”

Creepy Animal Art
Artist Liz McGrath has a very serious aptitude for the grotesque and the creepy. This exhibition is called Tears of a Crocodile and represents her first exhibition in Spain.

McGrath’s work is dark, morbid, bizarre, surreal and very creepy, but at the same time she manages to give her dioramas, phantasmagoric creations and artificial taxidermy a certain humanity. I’m talking about the type of humanity from horror movies, when you feel sad for Frankenstein when he is attacked by a mob.

Retro Breakfast Exhibits
The first time you look at these images you might think, “Same old, same old, poor Flickr collection.” However, you would be wrong. I feel that a rather peculiar online sweet cereal museum actually reveals much more.

The designs, toys, names, and even the cereal act as statements and pieces of social history of the era in which they were made. Just looking at some of the photos in this gallery took me back to the 1980s faster than you could call Marty McFly.

Origami War.
Weapons in various forms other than guns have long been a popular trend, but there’s something about this project that I really like.

An exhibition called Paper Wars is taking place in London and is organized by Postler Ferguson. The idea is that it is “an exhibition of a series of paper reproductions of classic Death Machine weapon systems at the Craze Gallery on Portobello Road.

It brings together the paper kits from which you make weapons, including the AK47 paper kit that was featured on Trend Hunter many years ago (of course), and which you can buy for less than £20 at magmabooks . It was published by Die Gestalten Verlag in 2007.

I think it looks pretty interesting, but it’s probably too much for pudding. If you’re passing by Islington in London, it might be worth a look.