Nove Tendencije / Nuove Tendenze Art and Architecture in the 60's:
Zagreb – Milano
International Conference
organized by Alessandro De Magistris and Ivica Covic
Wednesday, May 30th 2012
Politecnico di Milano - Scuola di Architettura e Società
Museo Del Novecento, Milano
In the last century, during the fifties and sixties, we have seen a
definition of unprecedented scenarios of relationship and
contamination between art and architecture. They have combine the
perspectives of design research related to scientific, technological
and structural concepts, the exploration of the traditional boundaries
of art and of artistic work has been called into question with the
exploration of new concepts and relationships between art, space and
environment. The developments of “situationism” and the expressions
of so-called "spatial urbanism" in France, some radical experiences
that characterize the design cultures in the Central Europe, the Nove
Tendencije movement in Zagreb, are some of the most important steps of
the season of postwar renewal in architecture and art. Its epicenter
was the Europe marked by the Cold War and by the economic boom,
accompanied with extraordinary intellectual fermentation and with the
opening to the mass culture. The conference Nove Tendencije / Nuove
Tendenze. Art and Architecture in the 60's: Zagreb - Milan is the
first in a series of appointments that the ESTLAB research group of
Politecnico di Milano aims to promote and to study deeper as the one
of the most decisive phase in the history of art and design culture in
the second half of twentieth century At that time, Zagreb and Milan
were leading centers of, closely linked, research and innovative
trends in art. In the case of Yugoslavia, following the idea of
innovation of the architectural culture, weaving a network of exchange
was destined to mark some of the crucial pages of European cultural
history. Different researchers and direct protagonists of that time,
are called to espouse and discuss this important historical moment
during a one day study meeting, which will take place between the
Politecnico di Milano and the Museo Del Novecento.
Schedule
Section One 10-00 a.m. – 1.45 p.m.
Scuola di Architettura e Società, Via Bonardi 3
aula Rogers
Alessandro De Magistris (Politecnico di Milano / DiAP)
Introduction
Ivica Covic (Politecnico di Milano / DiAP)
Political Criticism: Arhitektura & CIP Hrvoje Klasic (Faculty of
Humanities and Social Science, Zagreb) Between East and West –
Yugoslavia ‘50s & ‘60s
Darko Fritz (Freelance artist and researcher, Amsterdam, Zagreb)
[New] Tendencies – International Art Network That Transgressed The
Cold War (1961-1973/1978)
Ivan Rupnik (Harvard University / Northeastern University, Boston)
Vinceslav Richter’s Reciprocal Agents Karin Serman (Faculty of
Architecture, Zagreb) Abstraction as a Tool: Main Attributes of
Croatian Art and Architecture in the 1950s and 1960s
Maroje Mrduljas (Faculty of Architecture, Zagreb)
Cellular configurations in Croatian Architecture in the 1960’s and
early 1970’s
Section Two 3.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.
Scuola di Architettura e Società, Via Bonardi 3 aula Rogers
Alice De Vecchi (Università degli Studi di Urbino)
Space. Body. Movement. The Interactive Environmemnts of the Gruppo T
Giovanni Rubino (Università degli Studi di Udine)
Between Italy and Croatia: Art, Technique and Ideology in the New
Tendencies
Matko Mestovic (The Institute of Economics, Zagreb)
The Legacy of New Tendencies, Tendencies and Computer
Giovanni Anceschi (Milano, IUAV, Venezia)
Closing discourse and introduction to the visit to Museo dell Novecento
Section Three 5.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.
Museo del Novecento, Piazza del Duomo, 14
Giovanni Anceschi: Gli ambienti del Gruppo –T (guided visit)
Section Four 6.00 p.m. – 7.30 p.m.
Museo del Novecento, Piazza del Duomo, 14, Sala Conferenze
Round Table with
Giovanni Anceschi, Alessandro De Magistris, Jerko Denegri, Vittorio
Gregotti, Matko Mestrovic, Francesco Poli, Marina Pugliese.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Sandro De Mgistris Tvrtko Jakovina Corinna
Morandi Francesco Poli Marina Pugliese
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