SYD MEAD - FUTURE CITIES // O&O Depot - 14.11.2019

An exclusive look into the creative world of one of the great futurists of our time

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Tron, Blade Runner or Aliens, Mission to Mars and Elysium:
for legendary science fiction films Syd Mead created trend-setting and breathtaking worlds. He developed entire cities and mobility concepts with flying cars, autonomous vehicles, space ships. Syd Meads picture worlds are always characterized by functionality and mostly a positive idea of the future. But for the dystopian cult film Blade Runner Syd Mead created the vision of a bold and apocalyptic city in which huge sky-scrapers dominate the skyline. Now, in November 2019, fiction overlaps with the present, for the 1982 film is set in Los Angeles 2019.

A total of 30 originals with a focus on urban spaces, including motifs for Blade Runner, offer an insight into the creative world of the visionary. In a brand new short documentary, Syd Mead talks about his work, inspiration and career.



Exhibition idea / initiator: Markus Penell
Curator: Boris Hars-Tschachotin

OPENING Thursday, November 14, 7 pm

Exhibition from Nov 15, 2019 to Jan, 16 2020

O&O DEPOT · Leibnizstraße 60 · 10629 Berlin
Mon- Fri 3 to 7 pm and by appointment

image: Downtown Cityscape / Blade Runner ©Syd Mead, 1981