Naked Functionalism and the Anti-Aesthetic
The Activities of Renshichirō Kawakita in the 1930s

The symposium in New Delhi at the India International Centre, organized in collaboration with the Max Mueller Bhavan, looked specifically at the history of art school education in South Asia in relation to the Bauhaus legacy. Speakers include: Kathleen James Chakraborty, Sabih Ahmed, Anshuman Dasgupta, Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan, Mayank Mansingh Kaul, David Abraham, Tanishka Kachru, S Balaram, Saif Ul Haque, Kazi Ashraf, Prasad Shetty, Rupali Gupte, and Natasha Ginwala.

Many of the concepts and concerns Gyorgy Kepes presents in Language of Vision have their roots in the Bauhaus. Both Bauhaus artists and Kepes shared notions of a language of art elements, universal laws, structure, and order, linking these to their utopic hope that art would have a positive effect on mankind. However, a great physical and cultural distance separated the German Bauhaus of the 1920s and 1930s from the post-World War II New Bauhaus in America, where Kepes taught and wrote.

Vom 4. bis zum 8. Oktober reist die Ausstellung bauhaus imaginista: Corresponding With nach Japan, genauer ins The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Mit Yuko Ikeda, einer der Kuratorinnen der Ausstellung, und Dr. Helena Čapková (Curatorial Researcher von bauhaus imaginista) sprachen wir über das universelle Bildungsprinzip des Bauhauses und seine Bedeutung für Japan und Indien.