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V&A HIGHLIGHTS

Autumn 2004 - 2007

EXHIBITIONS AND GALLERY OPENINGS

2004
MAJOR AUTUMN EXHIBITIONS

ENCOUNTERS: THE MEETING OF ASIA AND EUROPE 1500-1800
23 September - 5 December 2004
Encounters will explore three hundred years of artistic, cultural and technological interaction and exchange between Asia and Europe. The exhibition will show how East and West have always been fascinated with each other, and that the desire for and appeal of the exotic has shaped the material culture of both. Encounters will bring together a diverse and spectacular range of objects from Europe, India, China, Japan and South East Asia. The exhibition will draw on the collections of the V&A and those of major institutions and private collections around the world.

CHRISTOPHER DRESSER
9 September - 5 December 2004
Christopher Dresser (1834 - 1904) was a pioneering designer who helped shape British design over the last century. He is considered the first independent industrial designer, running a studio supplying designs to manufacturers including Wedgwood, Minton and Coalbrookdale. The exhibition will examine Dresser's career with displays of silver, metalwork, furniture, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper and watercolours. Dresser's influences included Japanese, Egyptian and Asian art and design as well as abstract pattern based on the scientific study of botany.

Dresser visited Japan in 1876 as the official representative of the V&A and the British Government, exchanging the best examples of European design for their Japanese equivalents. This trip was to transform his designs and he began to reject ornament in favour of form and the qualities of materials. It is this dramatic shift and Dresser's approach towards manufacture that has led him to be considered a pioneer of the aesthetic ideas which have dominated design over the last 100 years.

This exhibition has been organised by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution in New York and will be on display in Spring 2004 before coming to the V&A.


CONTEMPORARY AUTUMN EXHIBITION

BLACK BRITISH STYLE
7 October 2004 - 16 January 2005
Contemporary Space
This exhibition will explore the dress, style and fashion of black people in Britain, looking at how they have contributed to British culture. The exhibition will focus on the contemporary but also look at recent history. Since the migration of black people from the Caribbean and Africa from the late 1940s onwards, their presence has helped to change the visual landscape of Britain. The style of black people in Britain has had a profound affect on British culture. In turn the black population has drawn upon other areas of the African diaspora to express their own cultural identity.

The exhibition will be based around themes such as leisure and work clothing, dressing for church, and the importance and meaning of black pride. It will l explore the subject through clothing and textiles, accessories, styling methods and practices, production of garments and specially commissioned photography and film.


2005
MAJOR SPRING EXHIBITION

INTERNATIONAL ARTS AND CRAFTS
17 March - 10 July 2005
This major exhibition will be the first to explore Arts and Crafts as an international style from the 1880s when it flourished in Britain, through to its widespread development as a style in America, continental Europe and Scandinavia, until its final manifestation as the mingei undo (folk craft movement) in Japan between 1926 and 1945.

Three hundred objects from museums and private collections around the world will be on display including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, metalwork, jewellery, books, photography, paintings, prints, sculpture and architecture. Approximately a third of the exhibition is from the V&A's collections.

Highlights of the exhibition include jewellery by C.R. Ashbee, a lamp by Frank Lloyd-Wright, a stained glass window by M. H. Baillie Scott and a large Japanese stoneware dish by Hamada Shoji. The exhibition will also reveal the importance of the home and the unified interior with the installation of domestic room sets, including full scale re-constructions of an American 'Craftsman' room and a Japanese 'model room'.


CONTEMPORARY SPRING EXHIBITION

SPECTRES, WHEN FASHION TURNS BACK
22 February - 8 May 2005
A new exhibition, Spectres, When Fashion turns Back, will look at the way the past continues to influence fashion through the costumes of brilliant cutting edge designers, past and present. Spectres will explore the power of the historical muse, alongside how historical references and haunting themes drive designers to create particular garments or images for their collections.

Among the designers featured will be many of those at the foreground of conceptual fashion during the past twenty years including Junya Watanabe, Dries van Noten, Victor and Rolf, Hussein Chalayan and Alexander McQueen. Past designers featured include Scihaparelli, Madame Gres, Pierre Cardin, Dior and Mary Quant.


DRESS COURT DISPLAY

STYLE AND SPLENDOUR: QUEEN MAUD OF NORWAY'S WARDROBE 1896-1938 3 February 2005 to 8 January 2006
The V&A display highlights the wardrobe of Queen Maud of Norway, daughter of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra and the first Queen of the newly independent Norway. This extraordinary collection includes garments from her trousseau of 1896 to those made just before her death in 1938. Documenting the amazing evolution in women's fashion over those five decades, the display will feature her coronation gown, a superb array of early 20th century evening gowns, tailored suits and day dresses. Many of these splendid clothes were made by well-known Paris and London designers, such as Worth, Redfern, Morin-Blossier and Laferrière. Queen Maud was an accomplished athlete and her wardrobe includes riding habits and ski-wear. A variety of decorative techniques such as beading, appliqué and embroidery are presented as well as range of historical styles from the 1890s through Art Nouveau and Art Deco. The garments are on loan from the National Museum of Art/Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Oslo, in celebration of Norway's centennial of independence.


NEW GALLERIES

V&A AND RIBA ARCHITECTURE PARTNERSHIP: NEW GALLERY & STUDY CENTRE Opening November 2004 The V&A and RIBA open a new architecture gallery this Autumn at the V&A to display highlights from their world-class collections of architectural drawings, models and objects which have now been brought together at the V&A. The displays will draw on works by the great architects of past centuries and of today from Palladio, Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren to Robert Adam, Le Corbusier and contemporary architects such as Norman Foster. The Architecture Gallery is designed as a general introduction to architecture with thematic displays, educational interactive areas and three small temporary exhibitions each year. The gallery will be situated to the right of the main entrance to the V&A on Cromwell Road and has been designed by Gareth Hoskins Architects.

>From autumn 2004, there will also be a new set of study rooms and new
>stores in the Henry Cole wing of the V&A to rehouse the RIBA's
>Drawings, Manuscripts and Archives Collections alongside the V&A's
>Prints, Drawings and Paintings collections. The study rooms will allow
>the public to view the entire archives in an easily accessible way. The
>study rooms have been designed by architects Wright & Wright.


THE GILBERT BAYES SCULPTURE GALLERY
October 2004

GLASS GALLERY
November 2004

METALWARE
December 2004

MINIATURES AND WATERCOLOURS GALLERY
March 2005

SACRED SILVER
May/June 2005

NEW SCULPTURE GALLERY
May/June 2005

JAMEEL GALLERY OF ISLAMIC ART
Summer 2006

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE GALLERIES
2009

MAJOR EXHIBITIONS FROM AUTUMN 2005

DIANE ARBUS
Autumn/Winter 2005/6

CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY
Autumn/Winter 2005/6

MODERNISM
Spring/Summer 2006

LEONARDO
Autumn/Winter 2006/7

RENAISSANCE INTERIORS
Autumn/Winter 2006/7

SURREALISM
Spring/Summer 2007

BALENCIAGA
Autumn 2007

V&A opening hours:
10.00 - 17.45 daily (closed 24,25,26 December)
10.00 - 22.00 Wednesdays and the last Friday of the month (except December).


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