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DEMOLITION PANORAMA

Now just in time with our current issue, and in case you happen to be in Frankfurt during the next months, there will be a welcome chance to see new work by our cover star Cyprien Gaillard at his solo exhibition, opening this Friday at the venerable Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt.

Coincidence or not, the museum’s project space MMK Zollamt happens to open out on the Technisches Rathaus – a building of the city government which has been long disputed as an architectural eyesore from the 1960s. After years of political debate, it has finally been decided to replace the building with a reconstruction of the ‘historic’ quarter that had been bombed during the Second World War. The demolition of the building will be integrated into Gaillard’s exhibition, offering a ‘live view’ of official vandalism in progress, in the futile attempt to reconstruct a vanished past.

Alongside, Gaillard will be displaying the complete series of Geographical Analogies, the new works Angkor Beer as well as screening his video work Cities of Gold and Mirrors – in short, all works he’s discussing in our issue. And shorter, even: You might want to go see this.

Cyprien Gaillard
September 04–October 24, 2010

MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt Zollamt
Domstrasse 10
60311 Frankfurt/Main