Chandigarh is the earliest planned city in India, designed by Le Corbusier. As such, it is stamped with the modernist European visions of scientific rationalism, efficiency and social improvement through design. Some Great Europeans took place in front of the Chandigarh Art Museum, one of the Le Corbusier buildings. Visitors were invited to interpret an image from a series of photographs, all of which show public statues of some “great” Europeans. The freedom offered by parody, a moment in which history, monumentality, becomes theirs to embody.
Chandigarh Art Museum, 18-partes photo series
Christopher Columbus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sisi
Christiano Ronaldo
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Exhibition view, Sperling
Jeanne d'Arc
Georges Danton
Otto von Bismarck
Charles de Gaulle
Winstol Churchill
Lenin
Exhibition view, Sperling
Sigmund Freud
William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes
Victor Hugo
Marie Curie
Johann W. Goethe & Friedrich Schiller