Objects can be many, 2015
Wicker, fineer, lacquered wood
Dérive Dérivée
2015Wicker, fineer, lacquered wood
CAB, Brussel
The exhibition explores the glorification of communal movements in art and architecture during the fifties and sixties. These movements emerged from a time torn between the promising ideas of modernity and the intense demand to critically question these principles. While their work first and foremost aimed to merely witness the world they were living in. Their ideas and ideals, for example, of communal living, artistic collaboration and playfulness have for the most part faded away in our individual-centered and sober contemporary lives. Nevertheless the nostalgia and admiration with which we look back at this sort of cultural, artistic and architectural projects is perhaps a testimony to the utopian ideals of community, sociability and equality that continues to inspire and drive many artists, architects and thinkers.
Curated by Angelique Campens