There's a new exhibition scheduled to open on July the 1st at London's Design Museum focusing on the work of Javier Mariscal.
Drawing Life is not a retrospective, but a show grouped by concepts spread over six exhibition spaces, some in installation form, intended to invite viewing in a random order. Expect to see collage walls, graphic curtains, objects, drawings, sketches, audiovisuals and small displays illustrating the key elements, the evolution and the methodology of Javier Mariscal’s personal language. The exhibition was created after an exhaustive trawl through his physical and digital archives to select the more than 2,000 objects and images on show.
Drawing Life was developed as a reflection on the more than thirty years of Mariscal's professional life. It expresses how his language and iconography evolved, how he has used his obsessions and approach to life to bring shape and content to his artistic work, indeed, to all the design disciplines in which he has been involved.
The exhibition provides a fascinating insight into Mariscal’s creative processes, where everything starts with a drawing and nothing ever seems definitive.
