ABOUT THE WORK
Participation at the Exhibition Uncommon Places (2017) | Goethe Institut Hong Kong
An Exhibition in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Hongkong and Austrian Consulate General Hongkong

'PAST FUTURE - Plants and Towers'
Architectural structures of the 1960s and 1970s, manifestations of utopias so often built in concrete, inspired Bruno Klomfar to his PAST FUTURE series. Exploratory journeys through a once future-oriented era, now slipped into the past. Showplaces now already are cities like Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Bratislava, Brussels, Milan, Sofia, London and Zürich, where he not only traced icons of recent architectural history but also interesting buildings in danger of demolition due to insufficient heritage protection laws. The projection of a “past future” onto the current state of architecture brings facets to the forefront allowing the different layers of time to coexist parallel in a complex interweaving.
The shown sequence Plants and Towers from the series PAST FUTURE focuses on architecture interacting with its environment. In concrete terms, the focus is on the surrounded green space: This „grown" space generates interesting ensembles in combination with its architectural neighbours.