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“The Road”(1958): An Antimonument by Oskar Hansen

October 25, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

"The Road" is an unbuilt project by Polish architect Oskar Nikolai Hansen (team leader) with Zofia Hansen, Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, Edmund Kupiecki, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Fields, Territories Tagged With: antimonument, land art, memorial, monument, open form

A Non-Figurative Memorial: The Monument to the Victims of the Concentration Camps in Milan by BBPR (1946)

February 21, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

The Monument to the Victims of the Concentration Camps was designed by the Milanese architecture group BBPR in 1945 in the weeks following the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: grid, monument

Domestic Monuments: Drawings by Nathalie Du Pasquier (2009)

October 15, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Painter and designer Nathalie Du Pasquier (also on Socks), has been one of the founding members of the design movement Memphis and, in particular, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: drawings, memphis, monument, monuments

Monument for Every Situation, Lygia Clark (1964)

March 10, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Monumento para todas as situações ("Monument for Every Situation"), is a series of small-scale objects created by Lygia Clark  in 1964. (See also in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: form of form, monument, sculpture

“Irrational and Useless” Monument: The Abu Dhabi Mastaba by Christo and Jeanne-Claude

April 22, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 6 Comments

Since 1977 Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been working on their largest mastaba of oil barrels, a project conceived for the city of Abu Dhabi in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: desert, form of form, monument, sculpture

Notes for a Short History of the Anti-Monument /1 : Claes Oldenburg Proposed Colossal Monuments

March 6, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Claes Oldenburg's unbuilt "Monuments" are imaginary anti-memorials designed by the artist at the end of the 1960s. Their paradoxical anti-monumental … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: drawings, form of form, monument, sculpture

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