Isa Genzken: Fuck the Bauhaus - Andre RottmanFuck the Bauhaus, a series of audacious architectural models for future high rise buildings in Manhattan, marks a poetic and provocative shift in Isa Genzkens artistic oeuvre. Made in the year 2000, out of quotidian objects and cheap materials foraged in the streets and stores of New York, these sculptural assemblages depart from the German artists post Minimalist works begun in the 1970s. The earlier works conjured the haunting spectres of

but on the culture of their time

from anonymous folk crafts to celebrated masterpieces

Dorothy Miller

Lee Friedlander

the colour television and the computer

seasonal food

Care: Hand-wash

typography and lettering

The design and construction won an Award for Excellence in Design from the Public Design Commission

This publication is made possible in part by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

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