With an exhibition on Swiss landscape architects Vogt, AedesLand opens the first worldwide forum for landscape architecture and urban space in the former rooms of the Galerie Aedes at Savignyplatz in Berlin. This realignment in focus becomes manifest in the renaming of the gallery to AedesLand.
From Friday, March 2nd to May 20th, 2007, Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten - based in Zurich and Munich -present their work at Savignyplatz in Berlin. Titled "Lupe und Fernglas - Miniatur und Panorama" (“Magnifying Glass and Binoculars – Miniature and Panorama“), the show offers insights into their creative activities as well as into the mindset and working methods of this internationally operating office for landscape architecture.
The focus of the exhibition lies on the perception of nature. Its examination and analysis is a requirement for the daily work of a landscape architect. Each planning task is determined by this subject and thus forms the basis of the exhibition concept. What is nature ? How is it perceived and how can it be conveyed within the context of an exhibition?
Visitors of the show are invited to approach the subject on different levels. More or less familiar everyday situations are created in the gallery spaces intending to communicate the idea of nature. Sometimes single details are focused on, only to then widen the perspective for a comprehensive overview. This interplay of „Magnifying Glass and Binoculars – Miniature and Panorama“ is the guiding principle for the designs of Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten and as such underlies also the recently published monograph of the same title by Günther Vogt.
The hall of the gallery is laid out as a road, alongside which rear view mirrors fixed to the walls display diverse images of nature. From there, visitors enter the first room showing a rather basic natural phenomenon, namely trees with stems and leaves. The fact that we encounter this scenery in a gallery and not outdoors in nature alters the effect of this installation fundamentally, which also applies to the room-size model of a current large-scale project by Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten shown in the second exhibition space. Here, reality is translated into a miniature landscape and, in order to be comprehended, demands the decoding efforts of the beholder.
The features of this architectural installation involve visitors directly. They become part of it and can hardly resist its diverse effects. At the same time, the intensity of perception vacillates between proximity and distance.
Catalogue
An Aedes catalogue was published.
With a text by Günther Vogt
ISBN 978-3-937093-79-6
German/English
Price € 10,-
