Exhibitions Vilnius. Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970. The National Gallery of Art, Lithuania. The Curated Object

Videosphere television set. 1970. JVC. © V&A Images / Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Vespa’ 125CC motor scooter. 1951. Manufactured by Piaggio & Co. © Die Neue Sammlung - The International Design Museum Munich. (A Laurenzo) 

Disc Dress. 1967. Paco Rabanne (born 1934). © V&A Images / Victoria and Albert Museum, London 

Dieter Rams. Braun world radio receiver, T1000. 1963 © V&A Imag

Stavoprojekt 7 (Karel Hubáček). Ještěd teletower. 1968-1973. © Jiří Jiroutek

 

Peter Ghyczy, Garden Egg Chair, 1968, © V&A Images

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COLD WAR MODERN : DESIGN 1945–1970

 

Sept. 2  - Dec. 6, 2009

The international exhibition “Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970” brings together art and design from the West and the East of the period which marked dramatic conflict and competition between two major political blocks for first time.

 

The period 1945–1970 was a time not only of political tension, but also of exceptional creativity. It touched a wide range of human activities – from everyday life to the most remarkable achievements in culture. The Arms and Space Races, and the development of science and technology, have made a huge impact on culture. Concentrating on these highly troublesome and volatile years, 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 by outstanding artists from the West (Lucio Fontana, Pablo Picasso, Ossip Zadkine, and others) and the East (Jiří Kolář, Josef Koudelka, Boris Michailov, Yevgeniy Vuchetich, and others), modern design and craft objects (by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Pierre Cardin, Joe Colombo, Charles and Ray Eames, Dieter Rams, Eero Aarnio, Raymond Loewy, Paco Rabanne, Eero Saarinen, and others), architecture projects (by Archigram, Archizoom, Le Corbusier, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Arata Isozaki, Peter and Alison Smithson, and others) and films (by Stanley Kubrick, Mikhail Kalatozov, Andrei Tarkovsky, and others). Achievements in science and engineering, such as the model of the first artificial satellite “Sputnik”, model of the “Vostok” spacecraft capsule, spacesuits of USA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts, models of Moscow and Ješted (former Czechoslovakia) TV towers and others, will also be presented to the viewers.

 

The exhibition is organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Curators: Jane Pavitt and David Crowley.

For more information please visit: The National Gallery of Art, Lithuania