A
Future
City
From
The
Past
Looming concrete forms stretch to the horizon, casting shadows across deserted motorways, their articulated facades and pitch black windows bathed in an ominous, silent gloom. No life, just architecture.
These bleak black and white landscapes, dominated by the imposing geometric structures of the scaleless super- Brutalist megacity, overwhelm with their uncompromising, overpowering corporality.
German artist Clemens Gritl builds an enigmatic vision of radically aggressive futuristic urban dystopias – a merciless extension of Brutalist dogma.
The revolutionary social visions of mid-century architecture inspired in Gritl a deep fascination for such structures.
Through detailed 3D computer models, the artist refracts and redefines the „urban utopias“ of the 20th century, erecting on his digital scaffold disturbing architectural possibilities for an imagined urban future.
The photo-realistic presentation is closely aligned with architecture photography of the 1960s. Gritl however inverts the optimism inherent in the documentation of the architectural zeitgeist of its era—the monuments become monsters. „The choice to create the works in black and white ensures the plasticity of brutalist architecture is illustrated in its purest form,“ the artist explains.
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