Bloc Party: 65 Artists From Former Eastern Bloc Countries Form Compact Show at New Museum

Jindřich Polák, Ikarie XB-1 [Voyage to the End of the Universe], 1963
"Both time capsule and time machine, this compact exhibition gathers work by 65 artists from former Eastern Bloc countries. As you step off the elevator into a faux spaceship based on designs from Eastern European sci-fi films of the Cold War era, you might be reminded of how such plaster facsimiles can appear thrillingly dynamic onscreen. Perhaps this will put you in the proper head space for what a newspaper handout accompanying the exhibit describes as 'an asychronic narrative,' one in which 'the present is understood as an overlap of multiple temporal and spatial frames.' A slide show of Soviet modernist buildings from 1955-91 documents zigzagging stone buttresses, labial concrete roofs, and other edifices as loopy as any background seen in futuristic drive-in flicks."
Village Voice
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