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A landscape is an extended painting, a complex construction
into which all human longings, wishes, ideas and states
of consciousness flow, taking along their specific roots.It
is a rich, collective oeuvre of the most varied and
comprehensive forms of the human desire for expression.
Treatment of nature as well as the different cultural
and individual, symbolic and emotional backgrounds determines
the way human beings interfere with natural spaces,
how they change and design them. Intermittently, such
interferences can be conducted in a radical way. Changes
take hold at first slowly, then with increasing dynamic
and speed, they creep into the landscape, spread and
finally take on concrete, finished forms.
The questions which 04.scapes raises, follow up the
specific forms of the processes of change in landscape
- In what way do changes in the landscape happen?
- What makes people and society want to impress upon
the landscape actively, to design it, to change habitations
and thereby nature itself?
- Are the warning signs of the destruction of nature
detectable at an early stage?
04.scapes wants to show this world, flooded architecturally
and constructually and to reveal energies and powers
of human existence and to unravel the interconnection
of signs, iconographic codes and organic figurations.
"Creeping landscapes" are - rather as part
of reality - expressions of life and of the exchange
of ideas, trends and symbolic ornamentations which compliment
and develop each other and which are eventually exhausted
after leaving their traces in the landscape.
"Creeping landscapes" are representations
of cultural processes, which perpetually set in motion
dynamics and reciprocal motion of the territory. They
show future changes, by absorbing the past and by picking
up signs of present, not yet evident phenomena.
04.scapes highlights mainly four moments of changing
space:
- electro.scape; landscapes and systems of electricity
- avalanche.scape; landscapes of danger
- ski.scape; landscapes and systems of skiing
- infra.scape; landscapes and systems of mobility
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