Martin Heller’s statement seems contradictory: “The basic parameters of this exhibition are the reduction and diversity.” Heller is involved as an exhibition organizer at the permanent exhibition of Zurich in the country of the Museum, of the ten years. It will be opened on the next Saturday. What now? Diversity or reduction? And all of this is still under the slogan “Zurich”.
reduction: Only a good 300 square meters is the exhibition, they played with three rooms, which are fast strolls. However, one can easily spend a hour in it. “The available space led in temptation, the story of Zurich, conventionally, to want to about completely or chronologically,” says state archivist Beat Gnädinger, who represents the Canton in the control group of the project. “And yet, who wants to, at the end of an amazingly complete picture of what our Canton and city of Zurich.” So, diversity?
Tösstal or Lindenhof: ETH-computer scientists show us Zurich, as we have never seen it before. Photo: Reto Oeschger
The first is the Böögg. He beckons teasingly of an Installation at the Zurich artist trio Mickry3 is working. They combine playful, what makes Zurich; this leads approximately to the charming neighborhood of Felix and Regula, with Fischli/Weiss. While from the rear of the room, a deafening Bohrgeräusch testifies to the fact that we are still on a construction site, speaks Heller match of the “deep holes in the Zurich story.” Want to be called: stuck in somewhere and see what lies underneath. This will actually happen, but we still linger briefly in the first room.
Clips of municipalities
On twenty screens twenty municipalities or city districts introduce themselves in 30-seconds Clips. There are no commercials, but the shortest stories, which demonstrate an aspect of the place – reduction! As you can see is about a senior citizens group from Seebach, the hobby falls moderately trees, we know why Bruno Schlatter sleeps in Rüschlikon well, and that in Steinmaur in fact, Fox and hare say good night – if they are animated. We get twenty pieces of the puzzle that don’t fit together seamlessly, but others will come diversity in the course of time to do so.
Now an Interpretation of the Slogans is “Easy-Zurich” deutscht: Seebach, Rüschlikon, Steinmaur … you are quite own and at the same time easy to Zurich.
In the second room, the formal language of the exhibition, creators of Holzer Kobler architects, have already realized two permanent exhibitions for the Museum of the land manifests itself. A project Manager is Simone’s hair. A large cube contains hundreds of different sized, with pastel coloured light provided with the display cases. Therein, objects are issued for areas of Zurich’s cultural history: A Zwingli statue for the Reformation. Thumb screws for the witch persecutions. This is again a reduction.
However, the sixty objects are to a certain extent, the initials of the sixty chapters of Zurich’s history: A siren from the psychiatric clinic of Rheinau refers to the role of Zurich in the field of psychiatry, played history. The siren howled, respectively, if a Patient was looking for without permission. A valuable centrepiece represents the patrician of Zurich, a syringe … because each Zurich and each of the Zurich singer knows well what it refers to. When looking at variety, often on two levels: platzspitz and Letten fortunately, the history, but be a result, individual images in my head. So history goes under the skin.
On monitors, is told with strong imagery and few words, the history of the objects. Sometimes there are also stories: from the Small to the Large, from the past to the present, sometimes associative. However, it works. A small orange plastic figure reminded about the name of Shoppi in mind, as once the whole of Zurich for shopping flowed to Spreitenbach into the first shopping center in Switzerland. But it once went to Zurich couples another reason to get there: In Zurich, the concubinage was not banned until 1972, in the Canton of Aargau, you saw so closely.
room for more story
In some cabinets the light flickers, some of the monitors are still black, a number of the cabinets are still empty. “We are not quite finished yet,” says Simone hair. “But the free showcases are part of the concept.” So as the story writes itself always, this show never to end. The Association will curate, will also be a platform for the numerous facilities in the city and the Canton, which deal with history. Prerequisite: simply Zurich.
Through the wall
The last room look dizziness is worrying – but not only-in the truest sense of the word: computer scientists of ETH Zurich have realized here with a photographic procedure, which has previously been used almost exclusively in surveying, a fascinating cinematic approach to four places of historical interest.
These point clouds technology, combined with film shots, allowed that we see in a textile factory in the Tösstal through walls, in lake Zurich dive or climb to the Lindenhof at the same time to the castle, or the Parking garage Urania to descend. Veritable Holes Deep. As has been seen in Zurich. So, you must see Zurich. Here, Zurich is terrific – easy to Zurich, probably because the people of Zurich.
“Simple”, in the national Museum 2. February, admission is free. www.einfachzuerich.ch
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Created: 25.01.2019, 20:08 PM
