I wish I lived near Nottingham, in which case I’d go and have a look at this exhibition. Alas I don’t, so I won’t. Regardless, the city’s contemporary art museum is putting on the show, which runs from the 13th of February to the 17th of April, as part of Polska! Year – the year of Polish culture. Works by some of the world’s top contemporary artists who hail from the Soviet Bloc are featured alongside those by “leading figures of the Eastern and Central European avant-garde from the 60s and 70s”.
Named after the secret Gargarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, the expo aims to depict how the future was imagined under communist rule – think space travel, future fashions, etc. Period pieces, including agitprop will also be on display. Scroll forwards fifty years and there’ll no doubt be a similar event showing how people who suffered under Gordon Brown’s regime viewed the future . . . .
[...] to Robert Bonnett’s blog to see this review of an exhibition of communist visions of the [...]
[...] communism? Go to Robert Bonnett’s blog to see this review of an exhibition of visions of the future from behind the Iron [...]