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Hayward Gallery

Art in Revolution Exhibition,1971

Architect: Michael Brawne

The exhibition was both an opportunity design by Lissitzky, which also shielded
to display the works of a period and to an area in which slides of posters and
evoke the kind of visual effects which were street art were being shown.
current at the time. Only a certain amount Reconstructions of theatre sets,
of original material was available and it architectural models, photomontages and
therefore seemed legitimate to print reprints of fabrics were mingled with
copies of contemporaty posters or to use original works in order to convey
reconstructed material as in the something of the excitement and
prohibited Proun room. In any case such versatility of the decade 1917-1927. The
ideas seemed in line with those of the exhibition also included, both as one of
Constructivists. its significant displays and as a symbol
The mood of post-revolutionary visible across the Thames, a large scale
Russia was set by a three screen film reconstruction of the Tatlin Tower
made up from Soviet documentaries by erected on one of the upper level outdoor
Lutz Becker. The visitor then moved terraces. •
into a space filled by posters as if coming Michael Brawne
from the printing presses, echoing a