Urban Museum of Architecture

Urban Museum of Architecture, 1988.

Project completed for the competition of the “Japanese architect” magazine, Japan.

Currently in these collections:

• The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia.
• The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.

And part of the “Futuristic urban education” project, as a “Mechanical work” exhibit, section “1:200 scale”.

Project commentary (text fragment):

“Legend: Early morning, when the streets are asleep, the Galleries begin to creakingly extend their telescope-bridges. Museums lower the levers, connecting in chains with their kind. Exhibit cabinets straighten their accordion folds of winches. And all this commotion, creaking, rustling down the cobblestone pavements to reach the Accumulator tower, which takes the spent and gives the new, to maintain the life of these autonomous Mechanics. Just a moment, the city clock tower strikes and all comes to a standstill – the pulled in telescopes, folded levers, shifted folds, the city has come alive…”

Original material/colour: colour linocut, newspaper

Original size: 84×70 cm

Printed in three sizes – A5 (14.8×21 cm), A4 (21×29.7cm) and A3 (29.7x42cm) on 189gsm archival matte paper.

Sold unframed, and packaged in a transparent plastic sleeve with a heavyweight backing insert. Shipped flat in a bubblewrap lined envelope.