Despre Daniel Knorr in revista A Prior

Nationalgalerie

( .. ) For this year’s fifth edition of berlin biennale, Daniel Knorr has lined the rim of the overlapping roof of the building with coloured, vertically-aligned textile panels. On closer examination, one notices that the line of panels is incomplete on the west side, where it is cut short after one fifth of the length. This void does not represent a metaphorical gesture, but emanates froma factual constraint: The hangings consist of the banners of all student fraternities that have in the past and presently do exist in the city of Berlin ( .. )

de Jörg Franzbecker si Martin Beck in A Prior issue #17

Mihnea Mircan in A Prior. Un articol mai vechi.

Monuments

( .. ) Imagine this implausible meeting: on the grass right next to Maya Lin’s ‘Vietnam Veterans Memorial’ in Washington stands the monument’s mobile version – the Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall, conceived to crisscross America and reach those who cannot or will not travel to the capital and see it in its relation to site and adjoining landmarks. The two are accompanied by Chris Burden’s ‘The Other Vietnam Memorial’, produced for MOMA’s ‘Dislocations’, inscribing onto a vague replica of Lin’s design a few million names picked from a Vietnamese phone book ( .. )

de (poate ma repet) Mihnea Mircan in A Prior issue #17