The Seventies


A barren wasteland. Ponderous figures wearing thick white suits and mirrored round helmets, swaying like weightless balloons. Who does not remember the flickering black-and-white images at the beginning of the seventies which infiltrated our living rooms and filled our lives with the belief in progress.
The 70s: So much of what we had known no longer seems to apply, boundaries are being crossed. Anything seems possible.
A break with old traditions in almost all areas. New freedoms, democratization, an unconditional belief in technological progress. It is only the here and now that counts.
At the same time, limitations are more apparent than ever before. Here the blue planet – there the hostile vacuum.
This era takes many chances. It achieves great things. It is however absolutely self-centered. With a steady and immense use of resources and accumulation of debts. The concept of tradition has been abandoned and subsequently replaced by the concept of sustainability.

The astronaut/cosmonaut as a symbol of this era. On the one hand as a symbol of the failure of the conviction that “anything is possible,” on the other hand as the beginning of a new epoch of globalization. A globalization not only of multinational world trade and information flow but also the realization of the finiteness of all things and as a result of this our dependency on one another.
This dependency has never been more apparent than it was in the boundlessness of space.