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Yona Friedman in Budapest

Mónica Boixeda Budapester, Only-Be

The Ludwig Museum in Budapest once again proposes an important retrospective exhibition, which presents the itinerary of artistic investigation and creation of the famous Hungarian architect and philosopher Yona Friedman. The exhibition will open its doors on the 28th of October and can be visited until the 8th of January 2012, from Tuesday to Sunday from 10am until 8pm. Yona Friedman was born in Budapest in 1923. During the Second World war, forced to escape due to the Nazi occupation, he went into exile to the city of Haifa, where he lived for over a decade before moving to Paris in 1957. In 1966 he obtained French citizenship and he established himself permanently there. It was during 1956, during the 10th Modern Architecture Congress (which took place in Dubrovnik), that he gave his inaugural contribution to architectonic theory and urban development, with his ´Manifest of Mobile Architecture´, which contributed definitively to the fixation of certain canons of contemporary urban planning. When, in 1958, he finally published his ´Mobile Architecture´ manifesto, he focused himself not as much on the mobility of the constructions but rather on a new mobility of the citizens, more open and free. It was the possibility of building structures which didn´t determine or guide rigidly the movement of the people, so that they could move in different ways around these spaces. As well as a new form of conceiving the places, it was an interesting metaphor of the modern man (and of the mobility of societies) and a new interpretation of the relation between the spaces which they go through and the ones they live in.... read more

Exhibition Imagenes en Lucha in Madrid

Mónica Boixeda Madrilenian, Only-Be

The Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo in Madrid is presenting the movie series Imágenes en lucha. Relatos de resistencia until the 3rd of FEbruary 2012. This movie exihibition commissioned by Céline Brouwez and Pablo Martínez seeks to expose those images that haven’t been taken up by circuits of image distribution like the movie theaters or television, but that show a different reality. We live in a society of images and every day we are being bombarded by them, but if we are being really honest how much do we know and see from reality? Very little. Today more than ever the image has become a fundamental instrument to capture daily facts and that thanks to mobile devices like cameras and cell phones. The questions that the creators of this circle had was “What happens with all the documentation of resistance that goes against what is allowed/legal or that simply are directed against the system that are not seen or aren’t wanted to be seen and remain hidden? The answer is very simple, they are waiting for an opportunity to be shown and there are thousands of people that are waiting to see this invisible world in the media and movie series. In realms of this series there are interesting exhibitions such as Fragmentos de una revolución that reveals images taken in Iran during the month of June in 2009 when the government manipulated the election results und thousands of civilianscame out to protest against the fraud standing up against political and military repression. On the streets without any official credential evidence it’s the civilians who construct a chronic... read more