Italomodern 1+ 2

The exhibition provides insight into the architecture in Upper Italy from 1946 to 1976, the period that is also termed "architectural post-war modernism". Focusing on individual buildings, the architect Martin Feiersinger and the artist Werner Feiersinger have chosen projects by Neo-Realists and Rationalists, Brutalists and Organic Architects. Their selection ranges from small residential buildings to housing complexes that now seem gigantesque, from machine-like architecture to bold constructions and wayward individual projects by widely unknown architects. Roughly 220 buildings are introduced by means of numerous photographs, a brief text, and new drawings that convey an idea of the present condition of the buildings, from a subjective point of view. The architect Martin Feiersinger has been dealing with forgotten post-war architecture in Upper Italy for many years. On the basis of extensive research, Martin Feiersinger and his brother, the artist Werner Feiersinger, regularly travel Upper Italy, where they track down and photograph experimental architecture, focusing on unique buildings, even if they appear rather unspectacular.