exhibition
18.10. – 18.11. 2007, met-room Gallery, Barcelona
An exhibition of Bucharest architecture presented in Barcelona. Apparently, our capital is a colage of fragments, a place of colission of architectures and identities; actually, an incredible laboratory of modernity.
There is no stand of the trends of the last two centuries which could not be identified there, where a Balcan original background coabitates, an original interpretation of metropolitan models of the 19th century, an European heritage of interwar modern architecture, the grateast totalitarian operation in Europe and, finally, a frenetic and fragmented development following the collapse of dictatorship. The Jukebox City title takes over the metaphor of a juke-box – hits from various times apparently in disorder, but with themes and genres structuring discreetly the general collection. The exhibition, organized in 5 sections, was designed as a system of objects and installations set up freely in various spacs, the visitor being stimulated to discover and interact with the city and the works of architecture. For instance, in the first section – the Layers of the City – the movement of a toy car along the plan moved a projection on the wall – a colage of pictures on the real route: a digital walk on a route where old churches, buildings of a fin de siecle, interwar modernism or the ‘60s and gigantic ceausist interventions mix together.
Organizers: Zeppelin team, Scalae ED, Fundaţia Met.Room. Partner: Romanian Chamber of Architects.
Project funded by the Ministry of Cultures and Cults in Romania
