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Aldo Rossi’s Sleeping Elephant

Aldo Rossis Sleeping Elephant
Aldo Rossi’s Sleeping Elephant
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Aldo Rossi’s Sleeping Elephant
Lena Henke, Aldo Rossis Sleeping Elephant, 2018, Acrylharz glasfaserverstärkt mit Eisenarmierung als Unterkonstruktion, Gummigranulat (synthetischer Kautschuk) in Polyurethan-Coating, 70 × 220 × 225 cm, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. 11914
© Lena Henke
Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien
This is the English text for C. Contact: Reproabteilung.

  • Aldo Rossi’s Sleeping Elephant

  • Date2018
    • Artist Lena Henke (geboren 1982 in Warburg)
    • GND
    • Wikipedia
  • Object typePlastic
  • MediumFibreglass-reinforced acrylic resin with iron armoring as substructure, rubber granulate (synthetic rubber) in polyurethane coating
  • Dimensions
    70 × 220 × 225 cm
  • Signatureunsigned
  • Inventory number11914
  • Location Belvedere 21
  • Credit LineSchenkung Winegg Wien

  • Architecture, city planning, urbanity, and public space are recurring themes in Lena Henke’s sculptural practice, through which she critically—and often humorously—engages with the patriarchal structures that have traditionally shaped these fields. With Aldo Rossi’s Sleeping Elephant, the artist refers to influential Milanese architect, architectural theorist, and designer Aldo Rossi, a founding figure of postmodernism. In his book L’architettura della città (The Architecture of the City, 1966), Rossi examines the model of the historically evolved European city and argues for moving beyond modernist dogmas, adapting existing architecture for new functions, and conceiving urban planning as an ongoing process. The form of the sleeping elephant symbolizes the utopian dream of the sculpture to be implemented as built architecture.
    • 2021 Schenkung Winegg Realitäten GmbH, Wien
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