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Margret Hoppe – Das Versprechen der Moderne

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A fascinating visual investigation of Le Corbusier's architectural vision and what remains of it today.


Multilingual Edition (German, English)
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Edited by Hans-Werner Schmidt
2014
Hardback
96 pages, 51 color and 34 b/w illustrations
24 x 30 cm
ISBN 978-3-85881-461-6

Leipzig-born photographer Margret Hoppe is a promising new voice in European photographic art. This new book features her series Après une Architecture, a photographic perspective of Le Corbusier’s architecture that refers to his concept of a modern architecture laid-out in the book Vers une architecture (Toward an Architecture) of 1923.

Hoppe’s images show Le Corbusier’s use of exposed concrete, the clarity of his geometric shapes and the emblematic polychrome surfaces as symbols of his buildings. She investigates what remains today of these visions of architectural modernism, now that its legacy in many cases is adored as a monument rather than actually used and appreciated as a functional piece of architecture. The photographic image transforms the buildings into signs of a highly pictorial and sculptural aesthetic, enabling manifold views at Le Corbusier’s work in the present day.

The book also presents a selection of Hoppe’s photographs of international modernist buildings, alongside two essays and a conversation with the artist. It is published to coincide with a solo exhibition at the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig.

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«Das Verblüffende ist, dass Margret Hoppe eindeutig reale Motive, Raumausschnitte, Sichtachsen wählt, die geradezu typisch sind für Le Corbusiers Architektur, die aber auch die Raumstrukturen deutlicher machen und die zuweilen drastische Strenge der konkreten Details – Treppenaufgänge, Nischen, Flure, Türfluchten.» Ralf Julke, Leipziger Internet Zeitung

«Kunst der Moderne – ein Versprechen – dieses Thema befindet sich in diesem Buch aufbereitet und fotografiert wieder. Etwas für Denker und Philosophen ebenso wie Architektur Liebhaber. Ein ganz besonderes Buch!» Barbara Ghaffari, www.bookreviews.at

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