Art for Modern Architecture: Fall of Communism (February 1986–June 1994) Russia, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, East Germany, West Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, 2017
Marine Hugonnier
Photo: Elodie Grethen | TBA21, 2020
Photo: Elodie Grethen | TBA21, 2020
Photo: Elodie Grethen | TBA21, 2020
Commissions
Collection
79 silkscreened paper clips on vintage newspaper front pages
Various dimensions
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Marine Hugonnier’s “Art for Modern Architecture” (2008–) is a series of collages on vintage newspapers where silkscreened colored blocks cover all images on the front pages. The colors are taken from the Standard Kodak Color Chart. This principle of “coverage” investigates the reality of the viewer’s memory, whether it is a cultural memory, a collective consciousness, or an imaginary landscape. The series features historical events from around the world spanning from the end of World War II to this day. It often crosses the narratives of the same historical event, seen from different cultural points of view, in order to reveal the working of geopolitics and the different interpretations of the same reality.
Art for Modern Architecture: Fall of Communism (February 1986–June 1994) engages with the dissolution of the political and ideological space commonly referred to as the Eastern bloc. The assemblage of vintage cover pages of newspapers from each of the bloc-affiliated countries, reporting key events which acted as the engine of disintegration, redraws the entangled storylines connecting the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (February 25, 1986) to the election of president Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus in 1994. In Hugonnier’s visual archive the iconic images of these official reportages are being covered by colored silkscreens, undermining their state-sanctioned interests. The archival documents of histography thus become a contested space, voided of their representational function and reactivated by the viewers’ own polyvalent individual memories connected to the past and concealed behind the patches.
Various dimensions
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Marine Hugonnier’s “Art for Modern Architecture” (2008–) is a series of collages on vintage newspapers where silkscreened colored blocks cover all images on the front pages. The colors are taken from the Standard Kodak Color Chart. This principle of “coverage” investigates the reality of the viewer’s memory, whether it is a cultural memory, a collective consciousness, or an imaginary landscape. The series features historical events from around the world spanning from the end of World War II to this day. It often crosses the narratives of the same historical event, seen from different cultural points of view, in order to reveal the working of geopolitics and the different interpretations of the same reality.
Art for Modern Architecture: Fall of Communism (February 1986–June 1994) engages with the dissolution of the political and ideological space commonly referred to as the Eastern bloc. The assemblage of vintage cover pages of newspapers from each of the bloc-affiliated countries, reporting key events which acted as the engine of disintegration, redraws the entangled storylines connecting the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (February 25, 1986) to the election of president Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus in 1994. In Hugonnier’s visual archive the iconic images of these official reportages are being covered by colored silkscreens, undermining their state-sanctioned interests. The archival documents of histography thus become a contested space, voided of their representational function and reactivated by the viewers’ own polyvalent individual memories connected to the past and concealed behind the patches.
Marine Hugonnier (*1969, Paris, France) is a French and British filmmaker and contemporary artist known for her work exploring perception, and the ways in which our point of view determines meaning. Her interest in the relationship between language and image informs her diverse body of works, which includes films, photography, works on paper, performance, sculpture, and installation.
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