The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao hosts until September 19 an exhibition dedicated to those years immediately after the First World War, when the pandemic caused by the Spanish flu was at its peak.

For this purpose, its curator, Calixto Bieito, uses a varied chromatic palette to locate each of the 7 chapters in which the exhibition is fragmented.

The exhibition uniquely captures an overview of what that decade meant in all artistic disciplines, in addition to architecture and interior design. That period of explosive changes and structural ruptures led to multiple currents such as Dadaism, The Bauhaus or the New Objectivity and the birth of techniques such as collage or the development of cinema or photography, which, articulated in the course of the exhibition, show the enrichment that took place in that convulsive time. The latter is geographically confined to the cities of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Zurich.

In a time when we find parallels between that period and our present, The madness of the 1920s is a refuge for our insecurities, showing that after the storm comes calm.

Art for the Hungry.

Text: Beatriz Igea Sanchez.

Photos: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

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