Expo 58
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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The site is best known for a giant model of an iron crystal (each sphere representing an atom), called the Atomium, which decades later remains one of the best known landmarks of Brussels.
The fair is known for a musical milestone, a melding of musical composition and architecture. Edgard Varèse composed "Poème électronique," which was recorded to be played back from 425 loudspeakers, placed at specific points in the Philips Pavilion, designed by Iannis Xenakis while under the employ of Le Corbusier.
The fair is also remembered for being the place where Orson Welles's Touch of Evil was awarded the top prize at the concurrent Brussels Experimental Film Festival, by then-critics Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, despite Universal Studios' domestic dumping as a B-picture.