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Mischa Kuball «Bauhaus-Block/Lottery at the Bauhaus in Dessau»
Mischa Kuball, «Bauhaus-Block/Lottery at the Bauhaus in Dessau», 1992
Photograph: Kelly Kellerhof | © Mischa Kuball
Mischa Kuball used two slide projectors to project geometric forms in normed RAL colors onto the stairway to the Bauhaus building, a central site of the art school. The interior architecture, familiar from reproductions and idealizing paintings and with recently restored colors, is intensely influenced by the glowing, colorful motifs and their mood of light; other possibilities of design are simulated. The interplay between art and architecture is extremely well balanced: especially in connection with the equally brilliantly glowing window surfaces, the precisely bounded abstract projections fundamentally change the appearance of the walls, the underside of the stairs, and masonry borders; at the same time, the architecture itself limits the too-large light forms.


 
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Germany | Photograph: Kelly Kellerhof | Music: Heiner Goebbels
 

 Mischa Kuball
«Bauhaus-Block/Lottery at the Bauhaus in Dessau»

«Bauhaus-Block» was a number of works by the artist Mischa Kuball carried out in Dessau one year after German reunification in the historic building of the 20th century's most important art school.
The goal was to make the building itself an exhibit. No signs pointed the way to individual works; visitors had to find their own way, armed with a floor plan. With dynamic installations and slide projections in subversive deformations, Kuball focussed attention on the materiality of the incunabulum of modern architecture in itself and on the theoretical construction of the influential school as a philosophical construct. The visual interrogation of the site addresses the traditions of the Bauhaus School.