Ivorypress will be presenting the exhibition Zaha Hadid: Beyond Boundaries, Art and Design, as part of the annual architecture programme celebrated each autumn, which marks the beginning of the artistic season.

The exhibition, opening on 4 September 2012, sets out a wide perspective of the artistic body of work of the architect Zaha Hadid (Baghdad, Iraq, 1950), which reflects her personal worldview.

The show, which can be visited until 3 November, offers a deep insight into Zaha Hadid’s career with almost one hundred works, which run the gamut from models and plans to installations, furniture or even domestic objects. In the words of the curator, Kenny Schachter, the exhibition sets out a very democratic conception, non-hierarchical in structure, where a building is seen in the same light and with the same import as a spoon’.

In this way, the selection of pieces on show includes oil paintings on canvas created by the architect in the 80s and 90s, including The World (89 Degrees) and the project for the Vitra Fire Station, created in 1983 and 1991 respectively. Zaha Hadid’s most recent production will also be present, with projects, drawings and models, such as The Peak Block 2012, which show the evolution of her work.

The work of the architect, who was the first woman to be recognised with the prestigious Pritzker Award, in 2004, goes well beyond building design, spanning drawing, painting, reliefs and installations, as well as furniture and object design. For Kenny Shachter, Hadid’s world-view is one in which ‘art, design, and architecture collapse into one another to push and pull the boundaries of aesthetics in every conceivable manner and form’.

From her London-based studio, Zaha Hadid Architects, Hadid takes the same creative approach with regard to objects such as cutlery, jewelry, decorative pieces, or furniture, for instance the Z-chair or the Liquid Glacial table, which will be on show at Ivorypress. The exhibition will also include three large-scale installations created in 2008: Stalactites, Relief: Domestic and Kartal Pendik Masterplan, whose curved shapes adapt to the gallery’s exhibition space.

In the words of Schachter, ‘What is so inspiring and intriguing about the astounding output of Zaha Hadid is the imaginative, inventive and unquenchable expression of curiosity and creativity’. With a naturalist and humanist sensibility, Hadid ‘defies pigeonholing in a world increasingly defined by uniformity’, under- scores the curator.

Some of Zaha Hadid’s recent work, such as the MAXXI: National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome or the London Aquatics Centre for the Olympic Games of 2012, are examples of how the Iraqi architect sets a challenge to create a fluid and complex space. Hadid goes about architectural work in a way which transforms our vision of the future with new concepts and visionary forms, as can also be appreciated in buildings such as the Guangzhou Opera House in China or the Hoenheim Nord Terminus terminal in Strasbourg.

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Kenny Schachter.
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Ivorypress Space I - C/ Comandante Zorita 46. Madrid, Spain.
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From 4 September to 3 November, 2012.
Opening hours.- Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 14:00 and 16:30 to 20:00. Saturday from 11:00 to 14:00.
Official opening with the presence of the artist: 4 September 2012 at 19:30.
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Zaha Hadid, (Bagdad, 31 October 1950 – Miami, 31 March 2016) founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize (considered to be the Nobel Prize of architecture) in 2004 and is internationally known for both her theoretical and academic work.

Each of her dynamic and innovative projects builds on over thirty years of revolutionary exploration and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design. Hadid’s interest lies in the rigorous interface between architecture, landscape and geology as her practice integrates natural topography and human-made systems, leading to experimentation with cutting-edge technologies. Such a process often results in unexpected and dynamic architectural forms.

Education: Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977.

Teaching: She became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. Since then she has held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois, School of Architecture, Chicago; guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg; the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Awards: Zaha Hadid’s work of the past 30 years was the subject of critically-acclaimed retrospective exhibitions at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2006, London’s Design Museum in 2007 and the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy in 2009. Her recently completed projects include the MAXXI Museum in Rome; which won the Stirling award in 2010. Hadid’s outstanding contribution to the architectural profession continues to be acknowledged by the most world’s most respected institutions. She received the prestigious ‘Praemium Imperiale’ from the Japan Art Association in 2009, and in 2010, the Stirling Prize – one of architecture’s highest accolades – from the Royal Institute of British Architects. Other recent awards include UNESCO naming Hadid as an ‘Artist for Peace’ at a ceremony in their Paris headquarters last year. Also in 2010, the Republic of France named Hadid as ‘Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ in recognition of her services to architecture, and TIME magazine included her in their 2010 list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’. This year’s ‘Time 100’ is divided into four categories: Leaders, Thinkers, Artists and Heroes – with Hadid ranking top of the Thinkers category.

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Published on: August 31, 2012
Cite: "Zaha Hadid, Beyond Boundaries, Art and Design, in MADRID. [II]" METALOCUS. Accessed
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