Bringing alongside one another much more than 200 objects developed above the previous 5 generations, The Clamor of Ornament: Trade, Power, and Joy from the Fifteenth Century to the Current explores ornament in architecture, artwork, and structure through the lens of drawing. The exhibition foregrounds ornament’s prospective as a manner of communication, a variety of currency, and a indicates of exchange throughout geographies and cultures. The Clamor of Ornament seeks to tackle the multilayered complexity of the record of ornament, which include the dissonance concerning the unequal and harmful associations that mediate its motion concerning sources. Collectively, the objects on see both equally celebrate and interrogate ornament’s fluidity by generating connections among motifs, techniques, and intentions.
The exhibition at The Drawing Center capabilities a wide range of drawings, prints, textiles and objects, together with eighteenth-century Indian palampores Pennsylvania Dutch Fraktur drawings kosode paper patterns Navajo textiles and Albrecht Dürer’s Islamic-inspired woodblock-print knots. This broad method to the issue of ornament also encompasses primary architectural drawings by Louis Sullivan and Sir David Adjaye contemporary ornament in the type of logos from luxury vogue brand names and even present-working day models for patisserie.
