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9/11/2011

Michael Loderstedt

Srisa Contemporary Art Gallery, Firenze

This November 10th at 7pm, the SRISA Gallery of contemporary art hosts the opening of the exhibition "Utopia Revisited", by American Artist Michael Loderstedt. For this exhibition Mr. Lorderstedt is proposing a work that was made for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the “Garden City” of Hellerau.

Michael Loderstedt’s installation of cut and folded screenprints reflect on the 100th year anniversary of the “Garden City” of Hellerau, Germany. The “garden city movement” began in England by Sir Ebenezer Howard in 1898 as an urban design concept combining housing, work and cultural spaces in one utopian-modeled, architecturally-designed neighborhood. Hellerau, a suburb of Dresden, features homes designed by the prominent German architects of the day including Richard Reimerschmid, Heinrich Tessenow, Hermann Muthesius, Kurt Frick and Georg Metzendorf. This area attracted many European luminaries and progressives such as the great composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, and dance choreographers Gret Palucca and Mary Wigman who created performances for the Festspielhaus, Heinrich Tessenow’s famous cultural hall in Hellerau.

From it’s inception in 1909, the garden city of Hellerau enjoyed only five years of intended success before the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Later, in 1933 the establishment of the National Socialist government in Germany ended the progressive movement. After the second World War ended in 1945, the DDR government used the Festspeilhaus as a training headquarters for the military, and in the subsequent years the area fell into disrepair. Today, after German reunification, many houses have been restored and the area is once again considered a prime location to live.
The project began as a call for photographs of homes from a neighborhood website in Hellerau, and later digital versions of the houses were later offered freely as downloads from the same website. The works for this installation were created as double-sided paper models of some of the houses of Hellerau, with their interiors printed from garden imagery taken from the artist’s own garden in Cleveland, Ohio. The final installation, created as part of an anniversary cultural festival of 35 international visual artists, was installed in the home of Drs. Tanja Fischer and Heiner Ollendorf on Auf dem Sand 11, a home designed by Hermann Muthesius for a Dresden print publisher. The work will be developed further somewhat from the original installation with new text in English, German and now Italian.

Opening: Thursday, November 10th 7-9pm

Santa Reparata International School of Art, SRISA
Contemporary Art Gallery
via San Gallo, 53r - Firenze
Orario: 12-22
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