/ FFF4 | Invisible City
FFF4 | Invisible City is an art installation by the controversial artist and sculptor, Gregor Schneider. His entire oeuvre seeks to balance the visible and the invisible as he explores the relationship between private and public space, the imaginary and the real. He also references cities which offer a safe haven to the imagination in this era of perturbing transparency and the networked documentation of reality, a safe place where the concepts of surveillance, control, visibility and recognition seem to lose their dominance, albeit only for a time and in his work.
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#non-visible
MATERIALIZE THE INVISIBLE
The use to which he puts camouflage in his Athenian action is bound up with the historic square’s invisibility from above. The artist was inspired by the famous camouflaged locations of World War II like the aircraft factories on America’s West Coast which were covered by gigantic sacks for the duration of the war for fear of Japanese bombing raids. His is a practice which, by protecting and camouflaging, distorts the image of the actual urban environment, meaning the appearance and reception of reality.
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what
FFF4 | INVISIBLE CITY
INSTALLATION
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how big
4.600 sq m.
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why
MATERIALIZE THE INVISIBLE
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where
OMONOIA SQUARE, ATHENS
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@Stavros Petropoulos | 2017
;INVISIBLE CITY | OVERVIEW OF OMONOIA SQUARE
@Stavros Petropoulos | 2017
EXPERIENCING THE CITY AT EYE-LEVEL
@studioentropia | 2017
PRODUCTION PROCESS
@Stavros Petropoulos | 2017
CAMOUFLAGING OMONOIA SQUARE
@studioentropia | 2017
EXPERIENCING THE CITY AT EYE-LEVEL
@Stavros Petropoulos | 2017
INVISIBLE CITY | GENERAL PLAN OF OMONOIA SQUARE
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what
FFF4 | INVISIBLE CITY
INSTALLATION
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how big
4.600 sq m.
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why
MATERIALIZE THE INVISIBLE
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where
OMONOIA SQUARE, ATHENS
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#fields >
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#affordances >
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#non-visible >
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