Die Moderne als Ruine
Sabine Folie · 2009
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Summary: The exhibition sets its sights on modernity's design for a more humane and contemporary society since the early twentieth century: a design for new forms of living and new cityscapes. What happened to this utopia? The architecture and design concepts by the artists represented in the exhibition contemplate "models" of utopian, pure design in their state of deterioration. Sometimes preserving moments of the crystalline, they are riddled with decay, entropy, ruin, and "rust" (Smithson), yet find nourishment from the idea of the bricolage, the implementation "of that which is there", from the concept of recycling, so to speak. With that, they formulate final day stages, testing survival on the remnants of a demised civilization. These remnants are the final resources. On the other hand, these approaches thus take up a practically utopian thought of "sustainability", the idea of a better society, born of the spirit of dystopia. Exhibition: Generali Foundation, Vienna, 19 June - 20 September 2009.
Book details
- Year
- 2009
- Language
- German
- Publisher
- Verlag für Moderne Kunst
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 219
- ISBN
- 9783941185821
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