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The 371st Ginza Graphic Gallery Exhibition Paula Scher: Serious Play

February 04, 2019 - March 25, 2019

Design: Paula Scher
Design: Paula Scher
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The February – March exhibition at ginza graphic gallery will showcase the work of Paula Scher, famous for her epoch-making work in New York. Immediately after entering the profession, Scher was noticed for her work for the music industry, where she released a stream of astonishing album covers.  She later joined Pentagram, one of the largest design practices in the world, taking New York by storm through her work for The Public Theater and has continued to be active in fields ranging from advertising, logo design, to environmental design, and is remarkable for the outstanding quality and quantity of her creations. The Citibank logo, the signage for The High Line, VI for Shakespeare in the Park and Jazz at Lincoln Center are just a few examples of Scher’s work that one encounters to an astonishing degree when walking through the streets of Manhattan.   
The title “Serious Play” is a kind of goal as a designer for Paula Scher. Serious ⇨ solemn ⇨ hackneyed ⇨ extremely bored ⇨ rediscovered is the cycle of her work processes. Thus, at the stage when “serious” morphs into “solemn”, “play” is in danger of disappearing, so she has to start a new journey again to find the next fresh ground.
The exhibition features Scher’s epoch-making works selected from her rich career, including posters, logo design, environmental design, book design and other small graphic works. Furthermore, 16 works selected from the art Map series she has been working on for about 20 years, unveils another fascinating world of her creativity.
 

Venue

DNP Ginza Building 1F/B1
7-2, Ginza 7-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061
TEL: 03-3571-5206 / FAX: 03-3289-1389
Open hours: 11:00am - 7:00pm.
Closed on Sundays and holidays / Admission free

Supervised by

Kijuro Yahagi

Gallery Talk

Date: February 4, 2019 (Mon.) 4:00 –5:30pm
Speaker: Paula Scher
Venue: 3F, DNP Ginza Building
Admission free, Reservation required, 70 seats available
* Booking starts from January 21. *Event closed.

Now on youtube
https://youtu.be/yRLDZpvlU0s
 

Opening Party

Date: February 4, 2019 (Mon.) 5:30 –7:00pm
Venue: ginza graphic gallery / DNP Ginza Bldg. 2F

Paula Scher

Paula Scher is one of the most acclaimed graphic designers in the world. She has been a principal in the New York office of the distinguished international design consultancy Pentagram since 1991, where she has designed identity and branding systems, environmental graphics, packaging and publications for a wide range of clients that includes Citibank, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Shake Shack, the Museum of Modern Art, Tiffany & Co, the High Line, the Public Theater, and the Metropolitan Opera, among others.
During the course of her career Scher has been the recipient of hundreds of industry honors and awards; she is a recipient of the National Design Award for Communication Design, the AIGA medal and the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, among others. She is an established artist exhibiting worldwide, and her designs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the Library of Congress, the Victoria and Albert Museum and other institutions.
She is the author of “Make It Bigger” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002) “MAPS” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) and “Works” (Unit Editions, 2017). Scher holds a BFA from the Tyler School of Art and a Doctor of Fine Arts Honoris Causa from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, the Maryland Institute College of Art and Moore College of Art and Design. A documentary on her and her work can be seen in the 2017 Netflix series Abstract: The Art of Design.