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"In the Desert of Modernity", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
curated by Marion von Osten, Serhat Karakayali, Tom Avermaete, exhbition design by Jesko Fezer, Andreas Müller and Anna Voswinkel
Each 'item' to be included in the exhibition was approached as a surface of display, in that each work had its display formated to its physical presence, This to me seemed a very good way to make a kind of physical confrontation with items which may have had much less resonance if presented in a 'standard' format- in that much of it was source material, posters/models etc. So then they took the standard format of the display (especially if we think of the kind of informative display of the idea of 'visitor centre' which become part of the langugage of visiting architectural sites -the Schröder Huis will, for example, get a new visitors centre this winter and when I visited Buckminster Fullers dome near Montreal this was sort of all there was, the dome itself was dying ) and specified it. If Andreas said that Rossi was using normative typologies in a kind of unspecific way then this would be opposite, staging an openenss by using a recognizable form and then specifying it by adjusting it to the materiality of the posing item.
