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April 30–September
11, 2005
Heinz Galleries
This exhibition explores
objects designed for children around the world and
over time. From seventeenth-century New England to
Papua New Guinea in the modern era, the material worlds
of children are richly symbolic and reveal much about
cultures near and far. Furniture and playthings—the
stuff of childhood—communicate explicit messages
about adult attitudes, expectations, and desires for
their offspring.
Organized into six themes, kid
size investigates continuity and change in objects
designed to enable play, mobility, basic functions,
patterns of sleep, formal learning, and seating, with
whimsical and ergonomic variations on the basic chair.
Designs of precious rarity and everyday use are presented
to remind us of the wonders of childhood.
kid size: The Material World of Childhood is
an exhibition of the Vitra Design Museum, Weil
am Rhein, Germany.
Generous support for the exhibition's presentation in Pittsburgh has been
provided by members of The Associates of Carnegie Museum of Art. Additional
support has been provided by
Eat’n Park Restaurants and Parkhurst Dining Services.
General support for the museum's exhibition program is provided by The
Heinz Endowments, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Allegheny Regional
Asset District.
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March 26–June 5, 2005
Mixed Doubles pairs works from the Carnegie
Museum of Art’s collection of canonical video works from
the 1970s and 1980s with new moving image works by emerging national
and international artists. Linked thematically, these juxtapositions
allow poetic and formal connections to be drawn between works of
different generations that share similar impulses in subject matter,
technological innovation, and aesthetic investigation. Four pairs
of works will be shown in succession; this first installment brings
together the work of Dara Birnbaum and a collective work by Cory
Arcangel & Paper Rad, screening through June 5. Future pairings
of Mixed Doubles are scheduled for early June, early August,
and early October; these screenings will include the works of Peter
Fischli and David Weiss, and Paul Harrison and John Wood, among
others.
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February 12–June 12, 2005
Michael Maltzan is recognized as an architect of contemporary residences,
including notable houses in Beverly Hills and Malibu, educational complexes, and buildings for art. Since
1995, his innovative architectural firm, Michael Maltzan Architecture, has earned such major commissions as
MoMA QNS, New York, Kidspace Children's Museum, Pasadena, the Sonoma County Museum, and the Fresno
Metropolitan Museum. Maltzan is also at work on two international projects: Ministructure 16, a park pavilion
in Jinhua, China, and the redesign of urban space near the Garibaldi railway station in Milan, Italy.
The exhibition Michael Maltzan: Alternate Ground presents sixteen projects that
collectively demonstrate Maltzan's design strategies: the grafting of new and old, sensitivity to topography, the
prioritization of natural light, and the pleasure of promenade. The exhibition includes 200 models documenting the firm's
design process. Like Maltzan's buildings, the exhibition invites circulation and exploration.
Michael Maltzan Architecture was commissioned to design the 2004–5 Carnegie International, on view at the museum through March 20.
Generous support for the exhibition catalogue Michael Maltzan: Alternate Ground has been provided by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown.
The exhibition and its programs are supported by The Overbrook Foundation, the Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York,
and the Division of Art and Design at Chatham College.
The programs of the Heinz Architectural Center are made possible by the generosity of the
Drue Heinz Trust. General support for museum programs is provided by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and The Heinz Endowments.
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