To 20 May 2013 (Main Gallery + Gallery + Gallery of Collection)
CONCRETE – Photography and Architecture
Anniversary Exhibition 1
What ideologies reside in a single family home? How do settlements grow into cities? Why is the interrelation between life and work in Zurich and Winterthur different from that in Shanghai? How can sculptural high-rises and living spaces be translated into the two-dimensional world of photography? Why does photography influence not only the perception, but also the design of architecture? These and many other questions are posed by the large-scale anniversary exhibition Concrete – Photography and Architecture – which Fotomuseum Winterthur will present through-out all of its spaces at the beginning of March 2013. This 20th year anniversary exhibition is not chronologically arranged. Instead, striking positions, juxtapositions, and thematic fields will bring together the concrete, fundamental, and historic. In addition to everyday architecture and prestigious constructions, structural horizontal and vertical axes, house and home, utopias, plan and reality, the captivating transience of architecture against the test of time – and destruction both natural and intentional – will also play an important role. In answer to the force and power that is hewn in stone and poured into concrete, it is almost as if photography would offer a moral reminder of its weaknesses. The exhibition will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue containing numerous essays and images, published by Scheidegger & Spiess. Main sponsors: Vontobel Foundation and the Lottery Fund of the Canton of Zurich
