EXH 002         Empowerment of Aesthetics         SLA         2014

Header image: 14. Biennale Architettura di Venezia, 
Danish Pavilion © Nico Saieh
Text: topos magazine

In the Danish Pavilion visitors are invited to sense, wonder, be curious and reflect when you meet the smell of dirt, read Niels Bohr’s letter to Einstein, hear the sound of poetry and burry your toes in pine needles. The exhibition “Empowerment of Aesthetics” insists on new sensuous and sustainable symbiosis between rationality and aesthetics — between architecture and nature. It is a reflection on the fundamentals of the modern Danish society, which emerged in the mid 19th Century: The short pocket of time after the collapse of Romanticism but before the heralded Danish welfare state fully emerged; where the poetic interaction between architecture, literature, art, nature and science liberated an unprecedented energy and a belief in a dynamic society hitherto unseen in Denmark and elsewhere.

„My ambition is to present the interrelationship of forgotten, repressed or underexposed parts of the dynamic Danish modernity. Not only in the history of architecture, but also in science, art and poetry.“ Stig L. Andersson

© Nico Saieh

© Terri Peters

© Nico Saieh

© Jens Lindhe

© Jens Lindhe

© Nico Saieh

© Jens Lindhe

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