Weak Monument
Language: English
Published by Park Books Jun 2018, 2018
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Neuware -Denkmäler sind Sinnbilder der Macht mit expliziter und simpler, wenn auch nicht universeller Botschaft. Die Statue als zentrales Element eines Platzes hat in Estland keine Tradition, und die wenigen Beispiele dafür scheinen allzu häufig Zeugnis kultureller Deplatzierung und Fremdkörper im Stadtbild zu sein. Aufgrund dieser semantischen Lücke im baltischen Staat richtet sich der Fokus in dieser Publikation auf andere, weniger aufmerksamkeitserregende Architekturen: eine Treppe an einem historisch bedeutsamen Ort; ein Fussweg, der symbolische Bedeutung erhält. Anstelle der expliziten Botschaft in Marmor und Bronze wird eine implizite Aussage getroffen. Sie ist visuell vielleicht schwächer und doch bedeutungsvoller, denn was nur implizit ausgedrückt wird, kann nicht öffentlich infrage gestellt werden. Diesem Thema widmet sich der estnische Pavillon auf der Architekturbiennale Venedig 2018. Das dazu erscheinende Buch ergründet die Grenze zwischen explizit politischer Funktion eines Denkmals und alltäglicher Architektur. In Gegenüberstellungen von Fotografien und Zeichnungen vergleicht es klassische Denkmäler mit scheinbar banalen architektonischen Details und öffentlichen Räumen. Die Essays und Kurztexte gehen den verschiedenen Bedeutungsebenen in der Architektur öffentlicher Räume nach und ergründen die Schnittstelle zwischen Architektur und Erinnerungskultur. 176 pp. Englisch, Nicht zu entscheiden.…
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- Title
- Weak Monument
- Author
- Irina Davidovici
- Publisher
- Park Books Jun 2018
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3038601152
- ISBN 13
- 9783038601159
- Item weight
- 383 grams
- Dimensions
- 240x150x10 mm
- An exploration of the nature of monuments versus seemingly insignificant architectural objects and public space
- Accompanies the Estonian pavilion at the 2018 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale
Weak Monument explores the blurred line between a monument's explicitly political form and the architecture of everyday. It juxtaposes classical monuments with seemingly insignificant architectural objects and public space in a collection of images and drawings, archival as well as newly commissioned ones, alongside essays and brief texts.
Contributors include such eminent guests as Tom Avermaete, Professor of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology; Margrethe Troensegaard from Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford; Eik Hermann, Estonian theorist and philosopher; and Toomas Paaver, Estonian architect and political activist. Text in English and Estonian.
Published to accompany the Pavilion of Estonia, 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, 26 May - 25 November 2018.
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