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Eight table sculptures: the Hansaviertel in Berlin, divided into individual sculptures along subjectively drawn borders. While these mostly follow the streets and demarcations of that district on the northern edge of the Tiergarten, their unusual partitioning creates a certain disorientation. However, those familiar with the neighborhood will quickly recognize the streets cutting through the district and identify certain buildings that rise from the patinated bronze—particularly in the much better-known southern part of the railway tracks with its model settlement, created in the 1950s for the IBA 57, featuring striking buildings by well-known (and exclusively male) architects; buildings that seem to stand almost isolated in the greenery of the park. This is contrasted by the less prominent northern part, with its larger stock of old buildings and denser new developments from the 1960s.
Originally, these sculptures by Marina Pinsky were part of a broader work complex, first p…
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Eight table sculptures: the Hansaviertel in Berlin, divided into individual sculptures along subjectively drawn borders. While these mostly follow the streets and demarcations of that district on the northern edge of the Tiergarten, their unusual partitioning creates a certain disorientation. However, those familiar with the neighborhood will quickly recognize the streets cutting through the district and identify certain buildings that rise from the patinated bronze—particularly in the much better-known southern part of the railway tracks with its model settlement, created in the 1950s for the IBA 57, featuring striking buildings by well-known (and exclusively male) architects; buildings that seem to stand almost isolated in the greenery of the park. This is contrasted by the less prominent northern part, with its larger stock of old buildings and denser new developments from the 1960s.
Originally, these sculptures by Marina Pinsky were part of a broader work complex, first p…
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