Migros Museum of Design, Transformed Viaducts, and Daniel Eggli

Outside there was a beautiful park and a pool:

Entrance

 The Migros Museum of Design had just reopened. It was a little confusing as there are many galleries which don't actually belong to the museum. Still, I found some interesting exhibits.

This exhibit consisted of an hourglass with black liquid in it. It was specially constructed to drip at a rate which will match the duration of the exhibit. Afterwards, the exhibit can never be shown or used again. I have read about/seen similar exhibits which are destroyed once the time is up. Seems a shame to construct a work of art and then destroy it.

 

 

 

 This exhibit showed examples of edible water plants we might be eating in the future - hence the use of dinner plates to show various types of seaweed, etc.

 

 

The postcards below show four different kinds of edible water plants:

 

 

From left to right above. The red one is Dulce: 

 

The green one is Atlantic Wakame:

The yellow one is Sugar Kelp:

The pinkish one is Irish Moss:

Next was an exhibit of posters designed by women. There was an app which explained some of the posters (there were probably close 100 displayed), but - once again - the English presentation was clunky and difficult to use. I am disappointed in the lack of English explanations, etc. in the museums throughout Switzerland.

Here are some of the highlights that the curator thought exceptional.

This was for cigarettes and the use of black was exceptionally eye-catching.

 

This poster celebrated sausages. When I first looked at it, I didn't realize her "necklace" was sausages.  

This was entitled "Coronavirus".

 

A poster celebrating an anniversary for Laforet, a grocery store in France.

 

 

Poster for Moby Dick.

 

Poster for a Chekhov performance.

Jazz at MIT.

I liked this design for stacking chairs.

Afterward, I went to the newly renovated "Industrial" area. They have taken an area filled with viaducts and transformed it into a "hip" shopping area.

One the way home, I found this gallery with wooden art by Daniel Eggli. He says, "My work is carved out of solid wood with a chainsaw. The content is about the portrayal of characters who are often ironically exaggerated. The work is always based on the observation of people." 

There were about 15 pieces in the gallery by Eggli. I spent quite a bit of time there. I was quite taken by his art. Here's his website: https://www.galerie-reitz.ch/en/artist-eggli-daniel

I loved this one called The Kiss. Each sculpture is completely connected.