'Sonya Lacey: Newspaper for Vignelli' is on view at Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand from July 30, through September 18, 2016.The exhibition represents a series of tracking shots which follow the pages of a newspaper as they continually tumble away within a gusty outdoor setting. It is a video which is transferred from 16 mm film, acquired as a part of new media collection initiative for the Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection. The newspaper in the context is not any regular daily tabloid. Sonya Lacey has carefully constructed a facsimile based on the ‘European Journal’ (1978), a proposed but unpublished newspaper designed by the prominent modernist graphic designer Massimo Vignelli. Lacey conjured up the journal’s complete contents in her mind, recreating Vignelli’s signature gridded blocks, uniformly scaled titles and headers. Casting this design into a turbulent environment is her meditation on aesthetic hope, a consideration of the fate of a good design in the world of commercial imperatives.Click on the Slideshow for a sneak peek of the exhibition.
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