NEWS
Magnus Wallin, guest teacher at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts at Umeå University, is participating in the exhibition Progress and Hygiene at Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland.
"The concept of progress as development, a process of betterment, a transition from a lower to a higher stage was one of the guiding principles of the French Encyclopédistes, the thinkers of the Enlightenment and 19th century positivists.
It was also an element in the founding myth of modernity – the building of a new, better world. The faith in progress that was characteristic for the past century was expressed both in artistic manifestos and in new tendencies: such as Futurism, Constructivism, Suprematism and Neo-plasticism."
