{"id":46166,"date":"2000-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/archivos\/46166"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:34:53","slug":"construccion-y-deconstruccion-construction-and-deconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/construccion-y-deconstruccion-construction-and-deconstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Construcci\u00f3n y deconstrucci\u00f3n \/ Construction and deconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Autor:<\/strong> Pol Capdevila<\/p>\n<p><strong>Revista:<\/strong> L\u00c1PIZ Revista Internacional de Arte n\u00ba 243<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>La Bienal de Berl&iacute;n no intenta ofrecer una perspectiva neutral y plural del panorama art&iacute;stico actual, sino que se presenta m&aacute;s bien como una actitud y una predilecci&oacute;n est&eacute;tica. En el Kunst-Werke Berlin, la personalidad de los comisarios, Adam Szymczyk y Elena Filipovic, no se deja sentir muy directamente, marcando tan solo unas l&iacute;neas est&eacute;ticas, pero permitiendo que las obras hablen m&aacute;s por s&iacute; mismas. Sin embargo, la elecci&oacute;n de los otros tres espacios expositivos, la Neue Nationalgalerie, el Skulpturen Park y el Schinkel Pavilion, con su historia y su carga simb&oacute;lica, define un contexto que orienta intensamente el sentido de las obras. <\/p>\n<p>Inaugurada en 1968 a cuatro pasos de la, por aquel entonces, devastada zona de la Potsdamer Platz y del muro, la Neue Nationalgalerie de Mies Van der Rohe se erig&iacute;a como uno de los &uacute;ltimos hitos de la modernidad y como una arma simb&oacute;lica de la cultura democr&aacute;tica occidental frente a la dictadura. Justo cuarenta a&ntilde;os despu&eacute;s, las obras expuestas parecen querer reaccionar frente a este s&iacute;mbolo ideo- l&oacute;gico. De este modo, el conjunto de obras aqu&iacute; presentado se muestra, m&aacute;s que como una disposici&oacute;n armoniosa con respecto al espacio, como el \u201cmobiliario\u201d que Mies nunca podr&iacute;a haber deseado. Obviando algunas obras ir&oacute;nicamente <em>kitsch, <\/em> en general, se trata de piezas secas, fragmentadas, muy opacas. <\/p>\n<p>En la entrada, al lado del pu&ntilde;o comunista del polaco Piotr Ukla&#324;ski, el franc&eacute;s Cyprien Gaillard ha plantado la escultura de un gran pato de bronce que ha rescatado de las ruinas de un barrio parisino de viviendas sociales en demolici&oacute;n, se&ntilde;alando, as&iacute;, el contraste entre los valores que desaparecen (la vivienda) y los que sobreviven (el museo) en una misma &eacute;poca. La iran&iacute; Nairy Baghramian, en la obra <em>La colonne cass&eacute;e <\/em>(2008), sit&uacute;a dentro y fuera del edificio dos superficies enfrentadas en forma de \u201cl\u201d. Parecen sim&eacute;tricas, pero los orificios practicados en cada una de ellas no encajan con los que muestra su pareja, y rompen as&iacute; la idea de transparencia entre interior y exterior. La suiza Pamela Rosenkranz pone una nota siniestra con <em>Im Widerstand gegen die Gegenwart <\/em>(En oposici&oacute;n al presente, 2008): cuatro mamparas llenas de imperdibles y, frente a una de ellas, una peluca de mujer de rid&iacute;culas dimensiones. El norteamericano Paul Sietsema se dedica a mostrar la p&eacute;rdida de actualidad de figuras m&iacute;ticas de la historia, en un v&iacute;deo donde &eacute;stas aparecen representadas mediante mudas piezas arqueol&oacute;gicas. La tambi&eacute;n estadounidense Susan Hiller, en una de las mejores obras que pueden verse aqu&iacute;, reproduce fragmentos sonoros de canciones, charlas, mon&oacute;logos, listas de nombres, etc. de hablantes de algunas de las tantas lenguas en extinci&oacute;n o ya desaparecidas. Sobre una pantalla negra, el &uacute;nico elemento visual que se ofrece es el subt&iacute;tulo de la traducci&oacute;n al ingl&eacute;s. Estas lenguas son tambi&eacute;n sometidas as&iacute; a la colonizaci&oacute;n de la cultura occidental moderna. <\/p>\n<p>El Skulpturen Park consiste, en realidad, en algunas parcelas bastante c&eacute;ntricas, en el barrio de Kreuzberg, que algunos artistas llevan interviniendo desde hace unos a&ntilde;os y que nadie sabe exactamente cu&aacute;ndo van a desaparecer bajo el hormig&oacute;n. Por ah&iacute; en medio pas&oacute; el muro y actualmente solo quedan ruinas, malas hierbas y las sendas de los centinelas. Es un lugar con historia, pero no se erige como simbolog&iacute;a de nada; es m&aacute;s bien un lugar vac&iacute;o o, mejor, abierto y potencialmente rico en sentidos. De modo an&aacute;logo a como sucede con las obras mostradas en la Neue Nationalgalerie, aqu&iacute; los artistas tambi&eacute;n han simpatizado con este entorno, lo han intervenido y han integrado en &eacute;l obras de <em>land art <\/em> o <em>bio-art <\/em>, han utilizado andamios, escombros y residuos, han trabajado sobre el muro, etc. Por lo general, como resultado pueden verse obras poco o nada atractivas, experimentales y sin resolver. Pero la excursi&oacute;n merece la pena y, despu&eacute;s de haber pasado todo un d&iacute;a en el interior de las salas de exposici&oacute;n, casi se agradece su car&aacute;cter ambiguo, descentrado, potenciador de espacios donde reflexionar sobre el pasado del sitio y su incierto futuro. <\/p>\n<p>Kilian R&uuml;themann, de Suiza, ha cavado en <em>Stripping <\/em> cerca de 300 agujeros semicirculares de 30 cent&iacute;metros de profundidad en un &aacute;rea de 10 metros por 30, convirtiendo esta parte del descampado en una ret&iacute;cula geom&eacute;trica con presencia propia que se opone oblicuamente a una de las antiguas sendas de vigilancia. Para la obra titulada <em>Steelkill <\/em>, la argentina Luciana Lamothe ha construido un andamio del que cuelga un cartel con la foto del m&iacute;tico Palast der Republik socialista, edificio central de la Rep&uacute;blica Democr&aacute;tica Alemana, en su actual estado de demolici&oacute;n (en su lugar, construir&aacute;n un centro comercial que utilizar&aacute; las fachadas del antiguo palacio prusiano). En un cartel superior se lee: \u201cPanel de anuncios\u201d. Ir&oacute;nico, pero tambi&eacute;n previsible. En una caseta se puede encontrar una de las obras m&aacute;s elocuentes y, sin duda, la m&aacute;s tragic&oacute;mica. El noruego Lars Laumann ha realizado un documental sobre fetichistas del muro de Berl&iacute;n, personas que confiesan abiertamente amar esas piedras y explican su relaci&oacute;n amorosa con ellas. <\/p>\n<p>Finalmente, la peque&ntilde;a exposici&oacute;n del Schinkel Pavilion, incomprensible invenci&oacute;n neocl&aacute;sica construida durante la existencia de la rda, cambia cada dos semanas. La muestra presentada actualmente, de poco inter&eacute;s, incluye piezas de decoraci&oacute;n y dise&ntilde;o que contrastan con el estilo arquitect&oacute;nico de la sede. Considerando la bienal globalmente, se ha apostado de modo evidente por artistas poco establecidos y por una est&eacute;tica gris, desapacible y con cierto regusto amargo. Estas obras muestran la tr&aacute;gica y enfermiza historia berlinesa, y entran en di&aacute;logo con ella. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Construction and deconstruction <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pol Capdevila <\/p>\n<p>The Berlin Biennale does not attempt to offer a neutral and plural perspective of the contemporary artistic panorama. Rather, it demonstrates an attitude and an aesthetic predilection. At the Kunst-Werke Berlin, the personality of curators Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic cannot be perceived directly; they have merely marked a few aesthetic lines and let the works speak for themselves. Nevertheless, the choice of the other three exhibition venues, the Neue Nationalgalerie, the Skulpturen Park and the Schinkel Pavilion, with their history and symbolic load, intensely orients the meaning of the works. <\/p>\n<p>Opened in 1968, a stone&#8217;s throw from the, then, devastated area of the Potsdamer Platz and the Wall, Mies Van der Rohe&#8217;s Neue Nationalgalerie emerged as one of the last landmarks of modernity and as a symbolic weapon of the western democratic culture that defied the dictatorship. Exactly forty years later, the works on show seem to attempt to react to this ideological symbol. Thus, the ensemble of works on show within move away from a harmonious structure that interacts with the space, to appear as the \u201cfurniture\u201d that Mies could never have desired. Apart from several ironically kitsch works, in general, these are dry, fragmented and very opaque pieces. <\/p>\n<p>By the entrance, next to the Communist clenched fist by Polish artist Piotr Ukla&#324;ski, French creator Cyprien Gaillard has planted a sculpture of a large bronze duck, rescued from the ruins of a Parisian neighbourhood full of soon-to-be-demolished social housing, thus indicating the contrast between the values that disappear (housing) and the ones that survive (the museum) during one same period. Iranian artist Nairy Baghramian, with her work <em>La colonne cass&eacute;e <\/em> (2008), positions two surfaces inside and outside the building which she confronts to make an l-shape. They seem symmetric, but the holes made in each element do not fit with those of the other, and therefore break the idea of transparency between the interior and the exterior. Swiss artist Pamela Rosenkranz adds a sinister note with <em>Im Widerstand gegen die Gegenwart <\/em> (In opposition to the present, 2008): four screens tacked with safety pins and, opposite one of them, a ridiculously oversized female wig. us artist Paul Sietsema shows the loss of topicality of mythical historical figures in a video where these people are represented by silent archaeological pieces. Another us artist, Susan Hiller, in one of the best works on show in this venue, reproduces fragments of songs, lectures, monologues, lists of names, etc. spoken in languages now extinct or dead. On a black screen, the single visual element is the subtitle with a translation in English. Thus, languages are also subjected to the colonisation of the modern western culture. <\/p>\n<p>The Skulpturen Park actually consists of quite centric plots located in the Kreuzberg district, which several artists have been working on for years without anyone really knowing when they are going to be engulfed by concrete. The Wall once cut through the area, although all that is now left are ruins, weeds and the guards&#8217; tracks. The place has a history, but it does not stand as a symbol of anything; it is more like an empty place or, more precisely, a space that is open and potentially rich in meanings. Similarly to what occurs with the works on show at the Neue Nationalgalerie, the artists on show here have also identified with the space, they have intervened and integrated land art or bio-art pieces, they have used scaffolding, debris and waste, they have worked with the wall, etc. In general, the results are works that are barely attractive, works that are experimental and unresolved. However, the trek is worth it, especially after spending the whole day inside galleries. The ambiguous, disoriented character, encouraging spaces that call for a reflection on the place&#8217;s past and its uncertain future is almost appreciated. <\/p>\n<p>For <em>Stripping <\/em> Kilian R&uuml;themann, from Switzerland, has dug almost 300 semicircular holes that are 30 centimetres deep in an area measuring 10 by 30 metres, turning this part of the area into a geometric grid with a presence of its own, which opposes obliquely to former surveillance paths. For the work entitled <em>Steelkill, <\/em> Argentinean artist Luciana Lamothe has constructed a scaffolding with a poster of the mythical Socialist Palast der Republik, the main building of the German Democratic Republic, in its current state of demolition. (It will be replaced by a shopping centre that will maintain the fa&ccedil;ades of the former Prussian palace). A board on top reads: \u201cNotice board.\u201d Ironic, but also quite predictable. A shed accommodates one of the most eloquent and, unquestionably, the most tragicomic pieces. Norwegian artist Lars Laumann has created a documentary about Berlin Wall fetishists, people who openly speak of their love for the stones and explain their amorous relationship with them. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, the small show at the Schinkel Pavilion, an incomprehensible neoclassical invention built in times of the gdr, changes every two weeks. The display on show at present, which is not that interesting, gathers decorative and design-related pieces that contrast with the architectural style of the venue. Considering the biennial as a whole, it has strongly favoured little-known artists and grey, unpleasant aesthetics, that leave a bitter aftertaste. These works show Berlin&#8217;s tragic and unhealthy history, and converse with it. <\/p>\n<p>Translation: Laura F. Farhall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autor: Pol Capdevila Revista: L\u00c1PIZ Revista Internacional de Arte n\u00ba 243 La Bienal de Berl&iacute;n no intenta ofrecer una perspectiva neutral y plural del panorama art&iacute;stico actual, sino que se presenta m&aacute;s bien como una actitud y una predilecci&oacute;n est&eacute;tica. 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