Mircea Nicolae, ‘Glass globes’ (2008)
Brick fragments from 25 demolished houses, shaped with an electric power tool, and then placed inside 25 glass globes found in a deserted glass factory. The project questions the destruction of private houses built at the end of the XIXth century and in the first part of the XXth century in the central area of Bucharest, Romania. Currently, these buildings are being demolished and replaced with blocks of flats or business headquarters, thus evicting an important segment of the built memory of the city.
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Also tagged bricks, bucharest, DIY, found, fragments, fuckem, glass factory, glass globes, house, houses, installation, mircea nicolae, public space, remains, salvage, sculpture, transposition, trash, unknown
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Gordon Matta-Clark, ‘Window Blow-Out’ (1976), Document of action, 8 black-and-white photographs
Window Blow-Out shows a derelict housing project in the Bronx with its windows bursted out. In the performance, the artist shot at the windows of the empty building with a BB gun.
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Also tagged 70s, action, architecture, brick, Bronx, building, cats, constructive destruction, DIY, document, fuckem, gordon matta-clark, gun, house, kill'em all, performance, photograph, real, shapes, shards, shooting, site-specific, social, wall, window, wound
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