VISION AND REALITY - Conceptions of the 20th Century  Louisiana Museum of Modern Art All over the world the 2000 has seen exhibitions and initiatives, more or less successful, to commemorate, to remember, to analyze the just gone century. No exception has been made by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art of Copenaghen that dedicated to the millenium last century an exhibition, with the attempt to introduce the artistic production in all its possible aspects, from architecture, to painting, and sculpture, without forgetting cinema and the artistic applications on the most recent technologies, trying to give order in to the immense human experience of the '900. Vision end Reality moves from the idea that the artistic vanguards of the beginning century have had in the development of the art of the '900. Such a shattering and catalyzing effect that every kind of successive artistic creation couldn't have not considered. In contemporary art is possible to find out and re-employ aspects related to these experiences, not really as imitation, but as assimilation and development of the topics characterizing the vanguards and never forgotten, certainly still alive and updated in our time. The exhibition tries therefore to set systematically this creative trend that has covered the last century, following the leading concepts, or word keys, introduced by the vanguards- like space, time, movement- and trying to find them backi in the late creative activity. so the idea of time and movement as forth dimension of creative actoin, so overbearing in the futurist works of Bale, Boccioni, Russolo is nowadays present action in the works of contemporary architects like Zaha Hadid, Bernard Tschumi and Toyo Ito. The connections between the vanguards and our times are explored throughout architecture, painting, sculpture but also through cinema with the contemporary projection of Metropolis and Blade Runner compared meaningfully to the designs of Sant' Elia. Parc de la Villette in Paris by Bernard Tshumi instead is related with the work of El Lissitzsky with which it seems to share the awareness that it's the audience itself, with its movement that gives sense to space. Still in this direction goes, led to the extreme consequences by the power of the technology, the installation conFiguring the Cave by Agnes Hegedues, Bernd Linterman and Jeffrey Shaw, in which it's the public itself that interacts with a computer modifying the space of a three-dimensional projection, modern development of the experiences of the Triadiske Ballet by Oskar Schlemmer, of which the exhibition shows some delicious original mockups. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Gl. Strandvej 13 DK-3050 Humlebæk Phone: +45 4919 0719 Fax: +45 4919 3505 Automatic info: +45 4919 0791 Tickets: +45 4919 0720 www.louisiana.dk

Text by: Gloria Refini I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. In cooperation with: M.Angeles Fernández Alvarez TOP