Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World
Friday, Apr 22, 20169 AM — Sunday, Sep 25, 20165 PMEDT
| 18 West 86th Street
New York, NY, USRelated
Artek and the Aaltos is curated by Bard Graduate Center Gallery Director Nina Stritzler-Levine, a recognized scholar of modern architecture and design, and Juhani Pallasmaa, a prolific writer on modern and contemporary art and architecture, as well as a practicing architect and professor. Timo Riekko, archivist at the Alvar Aalto Archive in Jyväskylä, served as the curatorial assistant in Finland, and Kirstin Purtich, a recent graduate of the Bard Graduate Center master’s program, was the curatorial assistant in New York.
Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World is the first exhibition in the United States to examine Artek, a pioneering Finnish design company founded in 1935, and the first to have a specific focus on the two architect co-founders, Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) and Aino Marsio-Aalto (1894–1949). The exhibition considers the Aaltos’ shared practice through the lens of this groundbreaking company, whose under-recognized and multifaceted mission far exceeded its manufacturing of bentwood furniture designed by Alvar Aalto, for which the firm is best known. It also offers for the first time a specific analysis of Artek’s distinct international role as a disseminator of modernism in art, architecture, interiors, furniture, and other modern products.
Approximately 200 works will be featured—many never before on public view—including architectural drawings, drawings and sketches for interiors and furniture, paintings, photography, furniture, glassware, lighting, and textiles.
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Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World is generously supported by Artek. Additional funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, and Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Special thanks to the Consulate General of Finland in New York. Additional support for the catalogue is provided by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.
The exhibition is organized by the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in collaboration with the Alvar Aalto Museum in Helsinki.
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