2022
A Yugoslav architect, Vjenceslav Richter, once imagined a floating pavilion like a sailing ship with a mast, suspended by steel cables. For this project, he planned to recover parts of a bridge destroyed during the Second World War and build the pavilion using the ruins. The Sun, the Mast or Gravity takes these rusted elements to form a branching structure that connects unrealized visions with fallen landmarks—from the mast of the unbuilt pavilion to the shattered facade of the National Museum of Aleppo in Syria, another of his projects.
The modernist ideal of progress, once reaching toward the sun in clear, rational forms meant to embody a universal spirit, was soon humbled by gravity, fracturing into an economy of growth, extraction, and war that cast long shadows across the twentieth century.
This film moves through the afterlife of that dream, translating the language of modernism into digital morphologies, not as monuments to failure, but as material for reassembly.
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HD, CGI, color, sound, 07’
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video installation, wood panels, various dimensions
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Curator Lovro Japundžić. Collaborators Marin Berović, Marijana Gradečak. Sound design Strahinja Arbutina. Photo credits Ive Trojanovic.
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The exhibition and the catalogue have been realised with the financial support of the Zagreb City Office for Culture and Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
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LINKS
Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb