I made a little film at the Barbican's new Bauhaus exhibition for i-D online, which you can view by clicking here, see below for a short intro...
Bauhaus: Art as Life
Barbican Art Gallery host the biggest Bauhaus exhibition in the UK in over forty years.
Bauhaus is design for life. Despite its mere fourteen years of
existence, the German school spawned some of the most innovative and
imaginative thinking in art and design post-WWI, and we’re still living
with the results. With a sense of common purpose and the bettering of
society in mind, students and teachers including Walter Gropius, Josef
Albers, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and László
Moholy-Nagy set about fashioning a better way of living. The results
spanned art, design, craft and fashion, and embraced tradition as well
as technology, rigor as well as experimentation. But it wasn’t all work –
those Bauhausers also knew how to party. Visual culture today wouldn’t
be the same without the Bauhaus design principles. Based as they were in
a sense of idealism rather than commerce and with some absolutely
stunning results, there’s still a lot to learn from this school of
thought.
Bauhaus: Art as Life runs from 3rd May until 12th August 2012 at Barbican Art Gallery, London EC2Y 8DS.
'A little film for the Barbican'?! you should be really proud! The video is brilliant : )
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