"The roaring twenties", an invitation to remember and reflect at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

One hundred years have passed since that moment, the one in which the world was trying to mend the wounds of the First World War and the losses of the flu pandemic of the year 18. That moment of the rise of Surrealism, Dadaism, the Bauhaus, Purism and the first great steps of the Modern Movement.

"The roaring twenties" arrives to make us reflect, from a different point of view, on the dichotomies that marked this decade, of crisis and freedom, trauma and creativity, and how those differences were put into dialogue from the artistic movements that arose and spread throughout this period.
 

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents an exhibition with important parallels with the current 1920s, which, that even recognizing the distances between one period and another, tries to leave a reflection on the achievements, defeats and learnings of that time and how recovering their memory can help us to break the cycle.

The exhibition presents an extraordinary catalogue, with works ranging from Max Ernst and Ernest Neuschul, through Moholy-Nagy and Kandinsky, to more recent works by contemporary artists who touch on themes or techniques from the 1920s such as Fabian Marti and Kader Attia.

The following is the schedule of collateral activities planned for the exhibition.
 

1920 was a decade marked by both hardship and progress: cities grew at breakneck speed, the patriarchal concept of the family was challenged and transformed, and disadvantaged social groups began to make themselves heard in culture and politics. On the other hand, improvements in workers' conditions went hand in hand with a growing leisure industry and an innovative spirit fuelled art, in which experimentation embraced all disciplines.