Art on Display 1949-69
3 October 2020 - 5 June 2021
Case studies
Art on Display presents 1:1 reconstructions of parts of exhibition designs by Carlo Scarpa, Franco Albini and Franca Helg, Lina Bo Bardi, Aldo van Eyck and Alison and Peter Smithson.
Alison and Peter Smithson
Painting & Sculpture of a Decade 54-64 set out to bring to London an extensive survey of the latest and most exciting de...
➝ Read moreFranco Albini and Franca Helg
The first commission signed by both of them was the Palazzo Bianco in Genoa, a thoroughgoing restoration project of an o...
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Bo Bardi explicitly chose the easel because it is a working instrument, the place where the painting is born in the air,...
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The single object which most characterises Scarpa's museum projects is the easel. Hardly an innovation, nonetheless Scar...
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In 1965-6 Aldo van Eyck designed and realised a temporary pavilion for the fifth edition of the open air sculpture exhib...
➝ Read moreAldo van Eyck - Cobra
The two exhibitions in Amsterdam and Liège marked the short but turbulent life of Cobra: a group of artists from Denmark...
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