The Mondial Festival presents: Life, Death and Miracles of Architecture and S-Space, the Separate School for Expanded Conceptual Architecture, in the Space Electronic, Florence 1971.

MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture
Vancouver Art Gallery
20.2.2016 – 12.6.2016

Head Exhibition Curator: Stephanie Rebick
S-Space Curator: Peter Lang
S-Space Exhibition Design: Matthew Ashton

With work and contributions from Carlo Caldini, Gruppo 9999, Lapo Binazzi UFO, Alessandro Poli Superstudio, Gian Piero Frassinelli Superstudio, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia Superstudio.

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The majority of the pieces on display were intended to simulate the original artefacts. Films and slide shows were presented through digital video reproductions. The bicycle was loaned from a bicycle collector in Vancouver. While most photographs were made from digital files into prints, a small number of original items were put on display, including the S-Space white fur cover catalog, several magazines from the period,  and original BW photographs from the 9999 archive, along with an accordion fold-out collage made between 1971 and 1974 depicting Interplanetary Architecture, from the Alessandro Poli archive.

Photos  by Rachel Topham and Maegan Hill-Carroll, Vancouver Art Gallery

For more information on the Space Electronic Nightclub and the Mondial Festival, click here to be redirected to Peter Lang’s website