MoMA: “Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980”
U Muzeju moderne umjetnosti (MoMA) u New Yorku otvara se 15. srpnja 2018. izložba o arhitekturi u Jugoslaviji 1948-1980. koja će biti otvorena do 13. siječnja 2019. godine.
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Toward a Concrete
Utopia: Architecture in
Yugoslavia, 1948–1980
July 15, 2018–January 13, 2019
The Museum of Modern Art
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3931?locale=en
Situated between the capitalist West and the socialist East, Yugoslavia’s architects responded to contradictory demands and influences, developing a postwar architecture both in line with and distinct from the design approaches seen elsewhere in Europe and beyond. The architecture that emerged—from International Style skyscrapers to Brutalist “social condensers”—is a manifestation of the radical diversity, hybridity, and idealism that characterized the Yugoslav state itself. Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 introduces the exceptional work of socialist Yugoslavia’s leading architects to an international audience for the first time, highlighting a significant yet thus-far understudied body of modernist architecture, whose forward-thinking contributions still resonate today.
Toward a Concrete Utopia explores themes of large-scale urbanization, technology in everyday life, consumerism, monuments and memorialization, and the global reach of Yugoslav architecture. The exhibition includes more than 400 drawings, models, photographs, and film reels from an array of municipal archives, family-held collections, and museums across the region, and features work by important architects including Bogdan Bogdanović, Juraj Neidhardt, Svetlana Kana Radević, Edvard Ravnikar, Vjenceslav Richter, and Milica Šterić. From the sculptural interior of the White Mosque in rural Bosnia, to the post-earthquake reconstruction of the city of Skopje based on Kenzo Tange’s Metabolist design, to the new town of New Belgrade, with its expressive large-scale housing blocks and civic buildings, the exhibition examines the unique range of forms and modes of production in Yugoslav architecture and its distinct yet multifaceted character.
Organized by Martino Stierli, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, and Vladimir Kulić, guest curator, with Anna Kats, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.
Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980
Edited by Martino Stierli and Vladimir Kulić, 2018
Hardcover, 200 pages
Bogdanović by Bogdanović: Yugoslav Memorials through the Eyes of Their Architect
Edited by Vladimir Kulić and Wolfgang Thaler, 2018
Hardcover, 128 pages
Major support for the exhibition is provided by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art and by The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
Generous funding is provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Additional support is provided by the Annual Exhibition Fund with major contributions from the Estate of Ralph L. Riehle, Alice and Tom Tisch, The Marella and Giovanni Agnelli Fund for Exhibitions, Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, Brett and Daniel Sundheim, and Karen and Gary Winnick.
Support for the publication is provided by the Jo Carole Lauder Publications Fund of The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
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