Wednesday 20 July 2011

Belgische Innenräume

I spent five hours on a train today travelling from Düsseldorf to Berlin.  So I didn't get much time to see anything.  Here's something I saw at Düsseldorf's K21 last year and again yesterday.  Claudia Wieser's mural covering part of an arcade is a montage of photocopies from the book Alte Belgische Innenäume (1930) blown up to life size.  The superposition of real and virtual architectural spaces in conflicting perspectives generates a feeling of vertigo.  I would be interested in seeing more of her works, especially those interacting with architectural spaces.

Wieser at K21, Düsseldorf 2010: