Armando Andrade Tudela (PE, D)
Project for Pergola


Project for Pergola, 2010
Installation Galvanized punched metal plates, steel profiles, varnished red

Rosseggergarten, Pergola

One of the core questions of any occupation with public space concerns its “naturalization,” the everyday way in which inhabitants and visitors naturally confront the logic underlying the arrangements of buildings, squares and streets, their vocabularies of form, their significance and function, even when the orthogonality and rationality of the “modern city” is challenged (as a kind of denaturalization of the city). Peruvian-born Armando Andrade Tudela is interested in the circulation of forms in different cultures and contexts, for example the almost epidemic spread of the modern and modernist vocabulary of form. With the aid of interventions in the realm between architecture and sculpture, whose form derives from everyday culture, architecture and art, Andrade Tudela focuses on this seeming naturalness of an urban setting at specific sites. To what logic of space production does a place owe its appearance, its expanse, its accessibility, what formal and conceptual conditions were necessary for its realization?
In the Rosseggergarten on the corner of Opernring and Burggasse, the ventilation hood of the underground car park below is enclosed by a pergola, that integrates the concrete ventilation cube covered with posters architecturally into the public garden, at the same time covering and accentuating the footpath as a space-forming element. Here, two architectural elements whose history and function could not be more different relate to (and conceal) each other.






Commissioned by steirischer herbst
In co-operation with the Center for Social Research at the Karl-Franzens University Graz & Institute for Contemporary Art (IZK) of Graz University of Technology
With thanks to Hans Kupelwieser
Project supporter Land Steiermark
Project sponsor Think!, Gebrüder Weiss & Alpenländische Schilderfabrik


24/09 - 02/11
Utopia and Monument II

Fri 24/09, 5 pm
Vernissage at the exhibition pavilion, Tummelplatz

6 pm
Performance
Paulina Olowska
Onethousandsixhundredand-
seventeen Neons in Warszawa

Andreas-Hofer-Platz
(Roof of carpark)

Interventions of the Institute for Contemporary Art
at the exhibition pavilion


Thu 30/09, 4 - 7 pm
Performative Input

Thu 07/10, 4 - 7 pm
Installation

Thu 14/10, 4 - 7 pm
Sound & media installation

Admission free




Armando Andrade Tudela
Born in Lima (PE) in 1976; lives in Berlin (D).



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