[spectre] Nove Tendencije / Nuove Tendenze Art and Architecture in the 60's: Zagreb – Milano

[Darko Fritz]

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