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"Sehnsucht", 2010 Venice Biennale Drawing included in the exhibition “Sehnsucht” “Sehnsucht” is a three-dimensionnal portrait of the “yearning” in contemporary architecture. Exhibited in the main space of the pavilion are interpretations of the theme “Sehnsucht” (yearning, longing) by a selection of over 150 German architects and creative minds from the arts world. Original hand drawings communicate their feelings, visions, and emotions. Commissioners: Die Walverwandtschaften - München Zürich Boston (Cordula Rau, Eberhard Tröger, Ole W. Fischer) see exhibition website
296 Linien Nr.2 The act of creation is in itself a longing for something that is not yet known. Each time one creates, one has an idea, along with an indefinite ‘’end’’ that is difficult to see. Only after trying and making can one achieve this ‘’something’’ which was once unknown. As a creative discipline, architecture is bound to this condition. Creative imagination is needed in order to make a building happen. The architectural process being particularly long, one necessarily has a longing for a goal, which demands patience and dedication. From an initial idea to a completed project is a large amount of time spent designing, drafting, modifying, refining, checking; many iterations are made until a building finally appears. Drawing is implicit to architecture. With the hand the architect thinks while drawing. Sometimes the architect draws without knowing what the final result will be. A search for something happens. Through constant trial and error, repetition, and refinement appears an idea, a plan. ‘’Drawing’’ or ‘’sketching’’ thus equals ‘’search’’ or ‘’Sehnsucht’’. Through drawing, a ‘’longing’’ exists, a desire that drives the creative impulse. Drawing is therefore a longing for the unknown; a longing for something that doesn’t yet exists. Through patient repetition, each line begins to form a whole. The drafted lines slowly assemble themselves and together become an index of the hand’s movement. The unpredictability of the hand’s movement creates a surface, a texture unique to the moment of its creation. With each movement of the hand is there also a longing after perfection, a desire to do the perfect line. Maybe the architect also has a longing for something hand-made, in this era of ubiquitous computing. Consequently, this « longing » is after the finished drawing itself. In order to contemplate the finished work, one must wait until the last drawn line. It is only then, after having patiently done 296 lines, which are exactly 210mm long, that one discovers the many facets of this drawing; its depth, shadows, undulations, and transparencies.
Schöpferisches Gestalten ist eine Sehnsucht nach etwas, das noch nicht existiert. Der Schaffensprozess beginnt mit einer Vision, aus der durch ständiges Ausprobieren und Weiterentwickeln bisher Unbekanntes entstehen kann. |
296 Linien, Nr.2
View of exhibition, German Pavilion
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