[rohrpost] FW: Exhibition: Searching for an ideal urbanity

[Annett Zinsmeister]

Exhibition : Searching for an ideal urbanity

When the French philosopher Henri Lefebvre criticized urbanism as an
authoritarian and immediately-antiquated controlling practice in the 1970s,
he suggested observing the ³urban condition² ­ his term for the time¹s shift
in the social economic and therefore also urban space ­ as a complex,
independent and unstable network of relationships.

Which forms of urbanity have developed in the present? How is the ³urban
condition² influenced by the local context? How are traditions reflected in
it? Is the (public) space the gauge for deciphering change? Because the
image of the ideal city as we know it from the renaissance is increasingly
dissolving, a new concept of urbanity could function as an instrument for
our survival. The exhibition is conceived as an initial experiment as a
platform for exchanging ideas of the topic.

The project was initiated by Fabrizio Gallanti (Architect, Italy) and
Jean-Baptiste Joly.  Artists include: Pier Vittorio Aureli (Architect,
Italy), Sarnath Banerjee (Author, India), Dafne Berc/Luciano Basauri
(Architects, Croatia), Sanford Biggers (Artist, USA), Susanne Bürner
(Artist, Germany), Jean-Francois Chevrier (Art historian, France), Karin
Damrau (Architect, Germany), Ingrid Hora (Artist, Great Britain/Italy),
Dagmar Keller/Martin Wittwer (Artists, Germany),  Andrea Melloni (Composer,
Germany/Italy), Ligia Nobre (Architect, Brazil) with Paola Salerno
(Photographer, France/Italy), Marzena Nowak (Artist, Poland), Margareth
Obexer (Author, Germany/Italy), Zoran Pantelic (Artist, Serbia), Patricia
Reed (Artist, Canada/Germany), Henrietta Rose-Innes (Author, South Africa),
Alexander Schellow (Artist, Germany), SMAQ (Architects,
Germany/Netherlands), Cobi van Tonder (Composer, South Africa), Popok Tri
Wahyudi (Artist, Indonesia), Stephen Waddell (Artist, Canada/Germany),
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss (Architect, Serbia/USA),  Annett Zinsmeister
(Architect and artist, Germany).

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