Flooded Modernity, 2024
Digital Print, frei montiert
Rahmen: Erle, grau lackiert, ArtGlas AR70 2mm
Blattmass (H x B): 36,7 x 55,1 cm
Rahmenmass (H x B): 45,3 x 63,7 cm
Ed. 1/5
Losnummer: 16
VERKAUFT
Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen
- The Fluss Bad Berlin project is an attempt to live differently with the water, acknowledging it as a force – but also healing power.
- Über das Werk:
A common trait between Fluss Bad Berlin and Flooded Modernity is the attempt to 'unwork' the devastating impact of modernist industrialisation.
The aim of the Fluss Bad Berlin is to bring a small part of the river Spree closer to its original state as a clean river with flush riverbeds, suitable for humans and the natural inhabitants of the river – thereby 'undoing' the polluting effects of industrialisation and agricultural farming.
It represents a critique of the idea of using the river as an easy garbage dump and of controlling the water by leading it through canals, and instead opens the river towards to other qualities of water: Water being a shelter, a harbour of life, a medium to access that can refresh the body and mind. The Fluss Bad Berlin project is an attempt to live differently with the water, acknowledging it as a force – but also healing power.
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The future will bring devastating heat-waves to Berlin, transforming the city into a burning oven of frying concrete, glas, iron, and asphalt. Here, the Fluss Bad Berlin will give local citizens and visitors the opportunity to cool themselves, thereby mitigating dehydration and sunstrokes, but also to connect and experience on a bodily level to the bio-diversity of the water. In a similar vein Flooded Modernity is a project about how the concept of modernism as an architectural ideology is being washed away by the pervasive climate crisis. An architectural ideology based on fossil fuels for its production of building materials and that spurned a new life style free from the constraints of living close to the earth. Both physically (the modern highrise, the urban city space) and mentally (access to new ways of producing food and new modes of transportation moving with high velocity). Being washed away by rising waterlevels, extreme weather events (hurricanes, floodings, forest fires etc.) the Villa Savoye in Flooded Modernity becomes the victim of its own un-intented side-effect: The climate crisis caused by the excessive consumption of fossil fuels. In this way, the Flooded Modernity relates to the Fluss Bad Berlin project as a before and after: The first representing the ending of modernist ideology, the second, as a new way of co-existence that emerges in the aftermath of modernism: Restoring destroyed natural habitats. - Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen
- Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen (*1977, Dänemark) studierte in Dänemark, Deutschland und Japan und lebte von 2007-2015 in Berlin. Seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt konzentriert er sich auf das Malen, Publizieren und Darstellen modernistischer Architektur, wobei er sowohl deren utopische Eigenschaften als auch ihr monumentales Scheitern hervorhebt. Im Jahr 2018 versenkte er ein maßstabsgetreues Modell eines der berühmtesten Gebäude von Le Corbusier im Vejle Fjord in Dänemark. Er hat zahlreiche Ausstellungen und Veröffentlichungen in Dänemark, Deutschland und ganz Europa gemacht. Seine Arbeiten befinden sich in Sammlungen in Europa, den USA und Südkorea. (Dieser Text wurde automatisiert mit DeepL übersetzt.)
