Der Apfelstrudel im Bauch des Architekten
This photograph was made about eighteen years ago with a Hasselblad medium format camera in Colosseum kino at Majorstuen in Oslo. I was standing directly under the huge, perfectly white cupola, looking straight up into the central opening. The ceiling is almost absurdly clean and symmetrical – like a deliberate echo of the Pantheon in Rome, quietly transplanted into a Norwegian cinema.
At the time I was working a lot with architecture and historical buildings – from the Palast der Republik in Berlin to the Holmenkollen ski jump in Oslo, where I threw a bicycle from the tower in the work Gravity is a mixed blessing.
The title Der Apfelstrudel im Bauch des Architekten is a playful nod to Peter Greenaway’s film The Belly of the Architect, but taken less seriously and with a bit more dessert. Like Gravity is a mixed blessing, the work sits on the edge between reverence and irony. It treats this monumental modern cupola with respect, but it also pokes it gently in the stomach and asks: what happens when we imagine these grand architectural spaces as bodies with cravings, doubts and a slightly ridiculous side?
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This edition is worth owning
This is a limited edition for people who want something real — but don’t need to buy a one-off to feel that.
The edition is fixed and controlled. When it’s gone, it closes. That’s the whole point: you get something scarce enough to matter, without the “only one exists” price level.
And hey! If you’re unsure about size: send me a wall photo with measurements and I’ll tell you what will actually work.
kr 12900,00
5 in stock
100 cm (length) x 100 cm (height)
