The Architecture of: Deception, Confinement, Transformation

ISBN 10: 8836649203 / ISBN 13: 9788836649204

Editore: Silvana Editoriale, 2022

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• Titolo: The Architecture of: Deception, Confinement, Transformation
• Editore: Silvana Editoriale
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 8836649203
• ISBN 13: 9788836649204
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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<p><strong>Artists respond to the storied history of a Munich exhibition space</strong></p><p>This catalog chronicles three exhibitions at BNKR, Munich—a WWII air-raid bunker turned internment camp turned exhibition space. The artworks exhibited relate to architecture and deception, confinement or transformation. Artists include Hans Op de Beeck, Bettina Pousttchi, Gregor Sailer and others.</p>

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The publication The Architecture of Deception / Confinement / Transformation accompanies the eponymously titled exhibition trilogy at BNKR - current reflections on art and architecture in Munich and showcases eighteen diverse artistic standpoints at the intersection f art and architecture. Each chapter directly corresponds to the evolving history of the exhibition space, which was originally constructed as a camouflaged air-raid bunker during the Second World War, then used as a postwar internment camp, and finally transformed into its current state as a mixed-use residential and office building. The Architecture of Deception explores notions of illusion and deception, the creation of new realities, truth versus fiction; Confinement explores notions of shelters and safety, captivity and freedom, 'outside' versus 'inside'; Transformation explores notions of gentrification, decay and definition of living spaces. With contributions by the editors, David Adjaye and Nikolaus Hirsch, Isabelle Doucet, and Madeleine Freund.