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Emilio Ambasz

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Emilio worked at MoMA from about 1968 to 1976 as Curator and Installer . He has been in five exhibitions at MoMA, between 1968 and 1989.

18 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, 1879–1967

25 January to 10 March 1968

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Paris: May 1968. Posters of the Student Revolt

23 November 1968 to 24 February 1969

Emilio Ambasz and John Garrigan were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Urban Anticipations: Eugene Henard (1849–1923)

30 July to 19 October 1969

Emilio Ambasz, Antonio Sant'Elia, Henri Jules Borie and Theodor Fritsch, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Graphics 1: New Dimensions

25 June to 15 November 1970

Emilio Ambasz, John Garrigan, Giovanni Pintori and Lothar Fischer, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Design Collection

1 December 1970 to 31 January 1971

Arthur Drexler, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Italy: The New Domestic Landscape

26 May to 11 September 1972

Emilio Ambasz, Mario Bellini, Achille Castiglioni and Joe Colombo, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition A Classic Car: Cisitalia GT, 1946

8 December 1972 to 29 January 1973

Emilio Ambasz and Pininfarina (Battista "Pinin" Farina) were involved.

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Designing Programs/Programming Designs: An Exhibition of Karl Gerstner

5 February to 10 March 1973

Emilio Ambasz and Karl Gerstner were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Chairs by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

14 November 1974 to 12 January 1975

Emilio Ambasz and Charles Rennie Mackintosh were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Furniture from the Design Collection: Thonet, Guimard, Wright, and Rietveld

7 February to 29 April 1975

Frank Lloyd Wright, Emilio Ambasz, Gerrit Rietveld and Hector Guimard, among others, were involved.

Curator
Architectural Studies and Projects

13 March to 11 May 1975

Emilio Ambasz, Michael Graves, Gaetano Pesce and Peter Eisenman, among others, were involved.

Installer
Photo of the exhibition Milton Glaser

2 June to 21 October 1975

Emilio Ambasz and Milton Glaser were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Projects: Walter Pichler

12 September to 3 November 1975

Emilio Ambasz and Walter Pichler were involved.

Curator
The Architecture of Luis Barragán

4 June to 1 September 1976

Emilio Ambasz, Luis Barragán, Max Ludwig Cetto and Mathias Goeritz, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition The Taxi Project: Realistic Solutions for Today

16 June to 7 September 1976

Emilio Ambasz, American Machine and Foundry, Alfa Romeo Automobiles and Steam Power Systems, among others, were involved.

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Inside Spaces

22 January to 24 March 1981

Sol LeWitt, Vito Acconci, Emilio Ambasz and Richard Artschwager, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Modern Poster

6 June to 6 September 1988

Max Ernst, Ben Shahn, Pierre Bonnard and Oskar Kokoschka, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Emilio Ambasz/Steven Holl: Architecture

9 February to 4 April 1989

Emilio Ambasz, Stuart Wrede and Steven Holl were involved.