We Built this City
Experience the installation A Film about a City when the artist duo John Wood & Paul Harrison take over the entire von Bartha exhibition space with their playful approach to urban planning and the architectural model.
(DA) Med "We Built this City", som er John Wood & Paul Harrisons første soloudstilling hos von Bartha i København, præsenterer kunstnerduoen deres installation 'A Film about a City'.
”Vi er ikke rigtig til helhedsplaner”, erklærer de i forbindelse med værket, der mimer den modelbaserede planlægning af en by. Modsat andre helhedsplaner er Wood og Harrisons plan bevidst ikke tænkt til at udvikle sig videre end den udstillede arkitektoniske model, der ifølge kunstnerduoen er foreningen af en række dårligt udtænkte planer. Installationen, der hos von Bartha fylder hele udstillingsrummet, inviterer sin beskuer til at opdage alle disse fejlagtige eller ligefrem umulige forslag og omstændigheder, som ved nærmere granskning åbenbarer sig i miniatureudgaven af den fiktive by.
(EN) For their first solo exhibition at von Bartha Copenhagen, John Wood and Paul Harrison will present their installation 'A Film about a City'.
“We're not really into master plans" the artist duo declare when speaking about the work that mimics the model-based planning of a city. Unlike other master plans, Wood and Harrison's proposal was intentionally not conceived to develop beyond the presented architectural model, which, according to the artist duo, is a collection of a series of badly laid plans. The installation, which at von Bartha, takes up the entire exhibition space, invites the viewer to discover all these flawed or even impossible inventions and circumstances, which on closer inspection reveal themselves in the miniature version of the fictional city.