Fairy Tale. Childhood in Lithuania during the late Soviet era at Kaunas Picture Gallery
...And by a monumental hippopotamus that is as much a furniture object as it is plaything, designed by Natalija Andriuščenko along with Vita Kašėtaitė-Čaplikienė and Regina Pakstaitė, that definitely was produced, if only once, and which finds an echo in Alexandra Kiesel's monumental leather rhinoceros Clara who one meets in Design for Children at the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, an exhibition that serves as an excellent conversation partner with Fairy Tale at a number of levels... And also still exists in the reflections and considerations it enables and empowers on the relationships between childhood and society, on childhood as a component of society, a space within society, arguably the first of many we occupy; thoughts that are also one of the myriad previously noted dialogues between Fairy Tale and Design for Children and that also provide an alternative context to reflect on Retrotopia...
