The utopia is possible
dal 19/6/2012 al 19/1/2013
Segnalato da
19/6/2012
The utopia is possible
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA, Barcelona
The exhibition commemorates the VII Congress of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) with documentary material, photographs and films from different archives and from the MACBA Collection.
curated by Daniel Giralt-Miracle and Teresa Grandas
The exhibition commemorates the VII Congress of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), where the interdisciplinary relation between design, art and architecture was crystallised.
Today the congress is seen as a milestone in the understanding of ideas such as sustainability, participation, exchange and the liberating role of art.
Among the promoters of the congress are the designers Yves Zimmermann and André Ricard, the philosopher Xavier Rubert de Ventós, the artist Albert Ràfols-Casamada, the architect Antoni de Moragas and the present joint curator of the exhibition with Teresa Grandas, Daniel Giralt-Miracle.
Fernando Bendito and Carlos Ferrater, students of architecture at the time, launched Instant City from a design by José Miguel de Prada Poole and the congress was inaugurated with a multicolour ceremony organised by Jaume Xifra, Antoni Miralda and Dorothée Selz.
Organised and produced by: Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA). With the collaboration of Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC) and Moritz.
From 14 to 16 October 1971 the VII Congress of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) was held in Eivissa. The event was conceived as a point of convergence between design and the most experimental forms of art and architecture. The congress became a test bench for studying the relationship between those practices and marked a new way of understanding design. As such it preceded the Pamplona Meetings, which took place the following year, prolonging the participative spirit that the ICSID had launched in a natural environment. The exhibition commemorates the event and highlights the ideas we can draw on for or own time: sustainability, participation, solidarity, the new relations between industry and society and the liberating role of the experience of art. This exercise in memory includes documentary material, photographs and films from different archives and from the MACBA Collection, as well as samples of oral history.
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Opening 20 June 2012
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA
plaza dels Angels, 1, Barcelona
From 24 June to 24 September
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 11 am to 8 pm
Tuesday closed (except public holidays)
Saturdays, 10 am to 8 pm
Sundays and public holidays 10 am to 3 pm
Tickets: Euro 8, reduced Euro 6,50