{"id":1227,"date":"2021-11-02T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T11:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m-a-u-s-e-r.net\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2021-11-02T12:01:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T12:01:48","slug":"temporary-city-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m-a-u-s-e-r.net\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":"Temporary Cities: Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Object on castors, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 images <\/span>\"\"<\/a> IMG_1901<\/span><\/span><\/a>IMG_1881<\/span><\/span><\/a>IMG_1882n<\/span><\/span><\/a>IMG_1494<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span> <\/span> Walter Benjamin asserts the importance of material presence to understand the city. In\u00a0The Arcades Project<\/em>, he includes direct quotations from Siegfried Giedion\u2019s early work\u00a0Construction in France<\/em> to describe a modern iron and steel architecture, railroad stations, exhibition halls, winter gardens and department stores. However, by focusing on all kinds of decorative features in and around buildings, Benjamin goes beyond Sigfried Giedion\u2019s purist (placeless and timeless) modernism. He recognizes in the ephemeral elements \u201cmaterial of vital importance for us … In any case, material of vital importance politically; this is demonstrated by the attachment of the Surrealists to these things, as much as by their exploitation in contemporary fashion.\u201c
The spatial elements that emerge within ephemeral urbanism: stalls, draperies, and decorations, as well as containers, tents, and fences, collapse \u2018cities of dream,\u2019 to use Benjamin\u2019s notion, with cities of painful actuality exhibiting the political, social, economic, and environmental disparity of our world.\u00a0

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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