Unbreakable Toys looks back at the last seven years of Mabi Revueltas artistic research, which is structured around three main themes: language, play and art education. This exploration stems from the book Abeceda (alphabet in Czech), published in Prague in 1926, a collaborative piece between the writer Vítězslav Nezval, the artist and designer Karel Teige and the dancer and choreographer Milča Mayerová. These forerunners of the Czechoslovak Avant-garde imagined a (playful) alphabet for modern life, their intention being to lay the foundations for a new language, a school spelling book which, through poetry, design and dance, would help to build a new world after the disasters of the First World War. Almost a hundred years on, the artist has developed an alphabet of her own, based on Nezvals poems, Teiges designs and Mayerovás static poses, enabling her to
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