This is the title of theexhibition organized by theVitra Design Museum in Weilam Rhein, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art andthe Moderna Museet of Stockholm, staged first at theVitra Design Museum and then travelling around in 2013: famous Pop Art works from 1956 to 1972 are presented alongside design objects from the same period,in a dialogue that illustrates the reciprocal influence they had on each other. The exhibition areas are organizedby theme: fetishism,exaggeration, and stylizationetc.
Each of the participating museums is contributing with a selection of works (Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns,Andy Warhol, Ettore Sottsassand Oldenburg for example)and encounters between artists and designers. In thecatalogue the section on Italian art and design is edited by Germano Celant; Zanotta isshowing the inflatable Blowarmchair by De Pas, D’Urbino,Lomazzi and Scolari (1967).