Exhibition COLD WAR MODERN AND DESIGN: 1945–1970
Both Western and Eastern fine arts, design of things and clothes, architecture and film art of the period marked by dramatic conflict and competition between two political blocks will be brought together for the first time in the international exhibition. 1945-1970 was a time remembered not only for its political tension, but also for the exceptional creativity. It affected a wide range of people’s activities - from everyday life to the most remarkable cultural achievements. The armament and space races, as well as the development of science and technology, made a huge impact on the culture of that period. By concentrating on this difficult and volatile era, the exhibition will reveal the Cold War as a competition between differing concepts of modern life and art in a world divided by the Iron Curtain. The exhibition includes works of outstanding artists from the West (Francis Bacon, Naum Gabo, Richard Hamilton, Isamu Noguchi, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Ossip Zadkine, etc.) and the East (Erik Bulatov, Jiří Kolář, Josef Koudelka, Aleksandr Laktionov, Boris Michailov, Yevgeniy Vuchetich, Krzysztof Wodiczko, etc.), artists of modern design and applied art (Magdalena Abakanowicz, Pierre Cardin, Joe Colombo, Charles Eames, Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtová, Raymond Loewy, Paco Rabanne, Eero Saarinen, etc.), architects (“Archigram”, “Archizoom”, Le Corbusier, Buckminster Fuller, Arata Isozaki, Richard and Alison Smithson, etc.) as well as films by Eastern and Western film directors (Stanley Kubrick, Mikhail Kalatozov, Andrei Tarkovsky, etc.). The exposition will also present unique engineering items, such as a model of “Sputnik”, the first artificial satellite of the Earth, and a model of the “Vostok” space capsule, as well as the spacesuits of US astronauts and USSR cosmonauts, a model of Ješted (former Czechoslovakia) TV tower, etc. Date: 2 October - 7 DecemberVenue: National Art Gallery of the Lithuanian Art Museum, Konstitucijos Av. 22, VilniusOrganiser: Victoria and Albert Museum (London)Promoter: National Art Gallery of the Lithuanian Art MuseumCurators: David Crowley (Royal College of Art, London) and Jane Pavitt (University of Brighton, Victoria and Albert Museum)www.ndSt.lt, www.ldm.lt
Both Western and Eastern fine arts, design of things and clothes, architecture and film art of the period marked by dramatic conflict and competition between two political blocks will be brought together for the first time in the international exhibition.
1945-1970 was a time remembered not only for its political tension, but also for the exceptional creativity. It affected a wide range of people’s activities - from everyday life to the most remarkable cultural achievements. The armament and space races, as well as the development of science and technology, made a huge impact on the culture of that period. By concentrating on this difficult and volatile era, the exhibition will reveal the Cold War as a competition between differing concepts of modern life and art in a world divided by the Iron Curtain.
The exhibition includes works of outstanding artists from the West (Francis Bacon, Naum Gabo, Richard Hamilton, Isamu Noguchi, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Ossip Zadkine, etc.) and the East (Erik Bulatov, Jiří Kolář, Josef Koudelka, Aleksandr Laktionov, Boris Michailov, Yevgeniy Vuchetich, Krzysztof Wodiczko, etc.), artists of modern design and applied art (Magdalena Abakanowicz, Pierre Cardin, Joe Colombo, Charles Eames, Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtová, Raymond Loewy, Paco Rabanne, Eero Saarinen, etc.), architects (“Archigram”, “Archizoom”, Le Corbusier, Buckminster Fuller, Arata Isozaki, Richard and Alison Smithson, etc.) as well as films by Eastern and Western film directors (Stanley Kubrick, Mikhail Kalatozov, Andrei Tarkovsky, etc.).
The exposition will also present unique engineering items, such as a model of “Sputnik”, the first artificial satellite of the Earth, and a model of the “Vostok” space capsule, as well as the spacesuits of US astronauts and USSR cosmonauts, a model of Ješted (former Czechoslovakia) TV tower, etc.
Date: 2 October - 7 December
Venue: National Art Gallery of the Lithuanian Art Museum, Konstitucijos Av. 22, Vilnius
Organiser: Victoria and Albert Museum (London)
Promoter: National Art Gallery of the Lithuanian Art Museum
Curators: David Crowley (Royal College of Art, London) and Jane Pavitt (University of Brighton, Victoria and Albert Museum)
www.ndSt.lt, www.ldm.lt
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