first we take Oslo then we take Hamburg
or the other way around, Monica Bonvicini's: She Lies (2007) off the shore off Oslo in front of the Opera House inspired by Caspar David Friedrich's: Das Eismeer (1823-1824) housed in Hamburg's Kunsthalle.
The synthesis of structure/skin/ornament explore the interface between nature and culture, or that of a cultural artefact. While reconstructing a famous Romantic painting, the work represents in a visual striking way the shape of an iceberg, as if one would have, by circumstances due to the global warming, ended up in the fjord in front of the opera house
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