Isa Genzken

Ground Zero

3 April - 17 May 2008

London

Isa Genzken presents a new body of work that is displayed across the Piccadilly gallery; including the main gallery and mezzanine, as well as the American Room on the top floor which has been out of bounds for several years; and continues across the road in Swallow Street. At the exhibition’s core is a presentation of Genzken’s long-awaited architectural proposals for Ground Zero, the twenty first century’s most historically significant site. These proposals take the form of architecturally induced sculptures produced in consultation with a specialist team of engineers to ensure that each model can be realised to the approximate scale of the World Trade Towers. Running contrary to official designs, Genzken envisages buildings with a social purpose – a church, hospital, car park, disco, memorial and shopping centre. The emphasis being on community projects that might help emotionally regenerate the site, as opposed to office buildings or the kind of structures one might find in Dubai.

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About the Artist

Isa Genzken

Isa Genzken has long been considered one of Germany’s most important and influential contemporary artists. Born in Bad Oldesloe, Germany, Genzken studied at the renowned Kunstakademie Düsseldorf whose faculty at the time included Joseph Beuys, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Gerhard Richter. Since the 1970s, Genzken’s diverse...

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