Andreas Fogarasi

1998

In a wide range of different media, Andreas Fogarasi investigates the strategies used to aestheticise and commercialise urban spaces. His works explore and rattle structures of perception and construction of history, and play with the boundaries between architecture, exhibit and museum presentation.

One of the things Andreas Fogarasi has produced for this solo exhibition in the Ludwig Forum is a video which has an open-air museum in Norway as both its setting and its subject. The focus here is on the “museum”-staging of original residences and utility buildings from different eras and their refraction in everyday routine. Another exhibit developed for this exhibition is a spatial installation consisting of ten two-winged partition walls made of marble that are distributed around the exhibition space, lending it a dynamic quality. A photo series is exhibited on them, making them displays, sculptural objects and architectural devices of spatial transformation, all at the same time.

For the exhibition, Fogarsi has designed a supplement for dérive – Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung (Magazine for Urban Studies). As a pure series of images that bring three series of works together, the supplement enters into a dialogue with the theoretical discourses in this edition of dérive on the topic of “Reconstruction und Deconstruction’.