Guided tour / Unfinished modernisations
Guided tour of the exhibition Unfinished modernisations / between utopia and pragmatism
Umetnostna galerija Maribor, Strossmayerjeva 6
Saturday, 18 February 2012, at 11.00
Guided by: Maroje Mrduljaš, curator of the exhibition
The Unfinished modernisations illuminates spaces that were created by the "socialist progress" in the former Yugoslavia and thus establishes what has happened with these spaces after the collapse of the common state and the disappearance of socialism. The exhibition focuses on the physical space, e.g. on the production of city or town planning respectively as one of the fundamental means of socialist modernisation; and on the role that architecture had in this production. The exhibition also interferes with symbolic spaces in which this production unfolded, such as geopolitical, cultural, economic, ideological spaces and so forth. The exhibition will present numerous architectural projects, ranging from tourist experiments on the Adriatic coastline, concepts for new cities and presentation pavilions at international exhibitions, to disreputable public edifices and historical memorials in all the former Yugoslav countries during 1948–1980. Through a new approach and audaciousness brought by the timely and political side step from modern history, it is the purpose of the project to re-examine the socialist architectural legacy of Yugoslavia and to awaken the strong and productive connections that are present at every step in the urban space of the former common state!
Maroje Mrduljaš (1971, Rijeka, CRO) graduated at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb. He is the author of numerous exhibited, published and awarded architectural and urban-planning competition projects and studies. He was awarded second prize at the 38th Zagreb Salon in 2003. He publishes essays, outlines and critical texts in the areas of architecture, urban planning, design and visual arts. He is editor of the 'Plan' collection at AGM, member of editorial board of the journals Život Umjetnosti, Up & Underground and Oris. Member of the Croatian section AICA, and autonomous expert of the Mies van der Rohe Award. Employed as a research assistant at the Faculty of Architecture, Zagreb.
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