Art on Display 1949-69
Catalogue accompanying the eponymous exhibition Art on Display 1949-69, a collaboration between the Gulbenkian Museum in Porto and the Nieuwe Instituut.
2 October 2020
The catalogue contains essays written by each curator of the exhibition: Penelope Curtis analyses the relationship between the museum and exhibition design in other countries, especially the designs developed by Franco Albini, while Dirk van den Heuvel explores the exhibition as an urban space in the work of Aldo van Eyck, Alison and Peter Smithson and Lina Bo Bardi.
Case studies
The five case studies following these two texts provide greater detail about the projects that the exhibition aims to recreate: Palazzi Bianco and Rosso by Franco Albini, Museo Correr by Carlo Scarpa, First and Second International Exhibition of Experimental Art and Fifth International Sculpture Exhibition by Aldo van Eyck, Painting & Sculpture of a Decade 54–64 by Alison and Peter Smithson and the Museu de Arte de São Paulo by Lina Bo Bardi.