![]() ![]() And it’s true that nostalgia for the raw concrete surfaces of the nineteen-sixties and seventies has seeped into the aquifer and is gushing out in Instagram feeds, coffee-table books, and music videos. Reading the broadly positive reviews, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the exhibition’s timeliness is linked to the fact that we are in the midst of a full-blown Brutalist revival. While there is no doubt that the extraordinary output of socialist Yugoslavia deserves that place, there is also a risk that the architecture’s true significance is not fully absorbed. For the curators, the aim is for Yugoslavian modernism to find its place in the architectural canon (which, after all, MoMA has done more than any museum to create). ![]() That would be a happy outcome, but there are higher stakes here. On seeing that the building makes a minor appearance in the Museum of Modern Art’s new exhibition “ Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980,” my first thought was that perhaps the powers that be in Sarajevo will finally consider it for renovation. That marble façade is like a smile full of chipped teeth. Today, the building is far from its serene best. Completed in 1963, it was designed by Boris Magaš, with Edo Šmidihen and Radovan Horvat, in the International Style. Formerly known as the Museum of the Revolution, the building consists of a blind marble slab that appears to float above a glazed ground floor. It’s a fun but rather kitsch place to be located in the city’s finest, and most zealous, modernist building. The lampshades are made from soldiers’ helmets. Inside, a bronze bust of the man himself, Josip Broz Tito, presides over a red room bedecked with Second World War-era military paraphernalia. “Concrete Utopia” will hit theaters on August 9.At the back of the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo, is a café called Tito. Toward the end, the clip previews a tense confrontation between the Hwang Goong Apartment residents, who try to protect their own family and their apartments, and the outsiders, who try to fight for their own survival. Min Sung (Park Seo Joon), who just wants to protect his family, and Myung Hwa (Park Bo Young), who wants to keep her faith and survive altogether, argue with each other over the cruel situation in front of their eyes. As the individual characters’ desires for survival get bigger and more desperate, people start to feel threatened by the outsiders and eventually drive them out of the apartment. The atmosphere suddenly changes completely when unidentified survivors from outside arrive at the Hwang Goong Apartments. Young Tak narrates, “I have a feeling that our apartment has been chosen.” Having become the temporary leader of the residents of Hwang Goong Apartments, he takes the lead in gathering people and making the apartment into a fort. The main teaser begins with Young Tak (Lee Byung Hun) standing alone amidst a devastated apartment buildings after an earthquake. The film will follow the story that begins when the survivors gather at Hwang Goong Apartments, the only building left standing in an earthquake-ravaged Seoul. Loosely based on Part 2 of the hit webtoon “Joyful Outcast” (“Pleasant Neighbors”), “Concrete Utopia” is a new disaster thriller about the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. ![]() ![]() Park Seo Joon, Park Bo Young, and Lee Byung Hun’s upcoming film “Concrete Utopia” has unveiled the main trailer! ![]()
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