Abstraction Lies
Artist
Laércio Redondo
(Brasilien, född 1967)
Date2015
MediumDigital video, color, no sound; projector, wooden display, wooden blocks
DimensionsVarierande mått
Digital video: 9:56 min
ClassificationMoving Images, Installations
Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)
Object NumberMOM/2021/438
CollectionsSvenska förvärv 2021
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkThe toy blocks stand out against a turbulent sky. Their shadows refer to the contours of Congresso Nacional do Brasil (Brazil’s National Congress), designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer for the capital Brasilia in 1960. It was meant to symbolise and reflect the aspirations of the modern nation. The wood blocks were designed by Alma Siedhoff-Buscher nearly 40 years earlier, in 1923, at the Bauhaus school in Germany, an avant-garde institution for art and architecture which put great emphasis on the importance of play to learning. With the installation Abstraction Lies, Laercio Redondo questions the relevance of the modernist utopias today, from the perspective of our contemporary more dystopian outlook.