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The exhibition opened during the London Design Festival until the 25th of October in the Design Museum of London.

In the context of the exhibition “Set In Stone”, part of the First Stone program, organized by experimentadesign in partnership with Assimagra and curated by Guta Moura Guedes. The charismatic English communication designer Peter Saville, co-founder of the legendary independent publishing company Factory, presents an unpublished work, produced specifically for this exhibition.

In Memoriam by Peter Saville, author of several covers (New Order, Joy Division, Roxy Music, Pulp, David Byrne, among many others) is a sculptural interpretation of the graphic that demonstrates the successive pulsations of CP1919 (the first 1967), which Saville used for Joy Division's iconic cover of Unknown Pleasures in 1979. The chart, which represents a linear illustration of the frequency and symmetry of a temporal event, was transposed to 3D by Saville and his colleague Bill Holding of the Morph in 2002, resulting in a sculpture from a moment in time. The entropic associations that inhabit the history of this work are amplified by this monumental stone reproduction - reflecting what Michael Bracewell writes about Saville's work for the Joy Division, seeing it as "the documentary evidence of a crematory in the depths of space".

Made in marble Dark Ruivina, with 305x305x1077mm and 250kg in weight, In Memoriam is presented in a set of 20 works of 9 architects and designers, bringing together the three work areas architecture, product design and graphic design, in the exterior and interior of The Design Museum, opened in 1989.

In addition to the work of Peter Saville, the pieces presented in London are written by the Portuguese Eduardo Souto de Moura, Paulo David, Miguel Vieira Baptista and Jorge Silva, from Chilean studio Elemental, English Jasper Morrison, Cypriot Michael Anastassiades and the duo Austrian and American Sagmeister & Walsh.

Peter Saville
He was born in Manchester in 1955. He is an artist and designer who has made a remarkably unique contribution to culture. As founder and art director of the independent British label Factory Records, he reached a wide audience through pop music, in particular with the covers he created for the Joy Division and New Order between 1979 and 1993. His radical creations broke all the rules, omitting information about artists or titles, fundamentally questioning the forms of consumption and communication. His latest projects encompass design, art and culture. Peter Saville lives and works in London.

First Stone

Is the result of a project involving about two years, where 24 architects and designers were invited to explore the potential of Portuguese marble and limestone, the presence of the stone in public and private spaces was explored, making use of the versatility of the material in terms of its color and texture. In total, 51 new works, new perspectives and new methods appeared during the process. Artistic freedom was paramount in this project, which expanded the potential of the stone, expanding the relationship between material, design and industrial and manufacturing processes.

Set In Stone

Projects:
Eduardo de Souto Moura (PT), Conversadeira, 2017
Elemental (CL), A Thing Not An Object, 2016
Jasper Morrison (GB), Alpinina, 2017
Jorge Silva (PT), Pictorama, 2017
Michael Anastassiades (CY), Forbidden Fruit, 2017
Miguel Vieira Baptista (PT), O Peso da Pedra, 2017
Paulo David (PT), Mult, 2017
Peter Saville (GB), In Memoriam, 2017
Sagmeister & Walsh (US), Do not Look Back, 2017

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