Exhibition at Bank/MABSociety Gallery in Shanghai
Michael Najjar participates at the exhibition "The Legacy of Architectonic Futurism" in Shanghai, China.
For the first time, BANK brings together the disciplines of art and architecture to pay homage to a visionary whose prophetic creations saw no limits. The Legacy of Architectonic Futurism is a group show in honor of the visionary and fantastical spirit of Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) an artist, theorist, educator, and architect whose politically charged and provocative illustrations were designs of systems in crisis. Drawing parallels between society’s physical and psychological constructions, Woods generated a career-long narrative of how these structures transform our consciousness.
On view at the exhibition is Michael´s artwork "f.a.s.t." which belongs to his "outer space" series. The work pictures the largest astronomical radio telescope on earth. China built this staggeringly large instrument called the “Five hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope” in the remote and barely accessible southern mountainous region of the country. Inaugurated in 2017, the telescope was constructed in a natural sinkhole surrounded by the extraordinary mountains of the Pingtang valley. The telescope has an incredible diameter of 500 m.
"The Legacy of Architectonic Futurism"
15 June - 12 August 2018
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