http://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/staff/horst/DKGaab.html - 30/12/97


Where are the

Francis Bacon Joseph Beuys Tatsumi Hijikata Franz Kafka Ohno Kazuo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Andres Serrano Joel-Peter Witkin

of architecture?

What would the people say if the skin of the Sydney Opera House grew a pimple, the Chiffley Tower had a hunchback or one of the protrusions on Queen Victoria Building had a rope around it pulling and stretching it a bit?

Is 'Constructing the Amorphous' malleable enough to create shape options evoking not only the sensuously curvaceous but the disturbingly distorted, mutilated and mutated through constructed geometry? With increasing perfection in normalising the human body is it time to incorporate reminders of the abnormal into the built environment?
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Apart from that: I live in Canberra and felt a need for this show ...!

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A more detailed version outlines similar sentiments through
intuitively linked quotes


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