Discursive Image
Third Time:
Design for a New Dramaturgy
The exhibition Objects and Territories (deSingel, Antwerpen, 2012), reveals an anthropological world in which humans and animals, the sacred and the profane, the genetic and the electronic, are distributed on an endless infrastructural surface. Across a series of microenvironments, the Italian architect Andrea Branzi deploys an interiorized, highly controlled space that is the image of our world of globalization, or, in his own words, “a constellation of local experiences, void of sense and (maybe) beauty too.” In this installation that recalls his early No-Stop City (1972), Branzi provides a new Athens Charter with a different reading of the urban realm. …
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