THE COLLECTION
Re-ruined Hiroshima, project, Hiroshima, Japan, Perspective
Arata Isozaki (Japanese, born 1931)
1968. Ink and gouache with cut-and-pasted gelatin silver print on gelatin silver print, 13 7/8 x 36 7/8" (35.2 x 93.7 cm). Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation. © 2010 Arata Isozaki
1205.2000
Terence Riley, ed., The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002, p. 101
Haunted by the remaining destruction of Hiroshima twenty-two years after the atomic bomb was exploded there, Arata Isozaki has projected images of his megastructures onto a photomural of the razed city. In this image his constructions are also in ruins. It is as if he had rebuilt Hiroshima, and it had once again undergone destruction. Ruins provide an important metaphor for Isozaki: "They are dead architecture. Their total image has been lost. The remaining fragments require the operation of the imagination if they are to be restored."
Bevin Cline and Tina di Carlo
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