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Doric Temple
Not on view
Binazzi was a founding member of the UFO collective, one of the "supergroups" (including Archizoom and Superstudio) of Italian architects and designers who banded together in the late 1960s to express their utopian and political manifestos through provocative works. They employed irony and parody to articulate their views. Binazzi’s performances incorporated props such as inflatables and giant hunks of foam cheddar cheese. In this installation, he questions the foundations of a shaky civilization in a way similar to the Capitello chair. A haunting meta-statement on what we might now call postmodernism, the elements of the installation are themselves becoming fragile ruins through the slow degradation of the material, once considered a technological breakthrough but now understood as ephemeral and unstable.
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