The artwork
shown on the photograph above called Merzbau, which is an installation work
created by Kurt Schwitters. Kurt was a German artist that mainly working in
genres and media such as installation, graphic design, sound, poetry etc. He
did very well in collage and he called it Merz, as the representation of his
own concept of Dadaism. Merzbau was one of Kurt’s most successful and
representative assemblage artwork but unfortunately it couldn’t be reserved
because of war and time. Kurt began to build it in early 1920s in Hannover
where was his original home. In 1937, he was exile from his hometown to Norway,
so he started to work in a new Merzbau but similar to the previous one in new
home. After that, he had to move again since he needed to escape from the Nazi
invasion. Finally he built another Merz building in England named as Merzbarn.
The first and the second Merzbau was destroyed by bomb and fire respectively
and the third one was disrepair after Kurt’s death.
Why is
it relating to science? Building this thing must be a very technical work as
the creator should think about mechanic, dynamic, architecture, graphic design…This
work was originally started in his studio, later he occupied the whole
department and transformed all the 6 living room in to Merzbau. Therefore, the
6 normal room was reconstructed into one big installation artwork. There were
added about forty distinct caves, grottoes and rooms in Merzbau but it was
still a family house for residential use. Besides, Kurt was only using found
objects like pieces of wood, rubbish etc. as the materials to build the
majority of his work. More interestingly, he would also use something that
visitors left in his house to decorate the artwork. So that people always found
different when they came back to this house, and of course they might find
their belongings became part of the marvelous artwork! This is one of the
reasons that I love this work so much.
On the
other hand, although Merzbau was built in geometrical-shaped base, the whole
creature didn’t seem making any sense. The non-sense spirit was the main idea
of Merz. This is the only thing that completely differed from science—we should
not always use logical thinking in order to invent a great artwork. Sometime,
we have to borrow the idea or technology from science, but we should also break
the rule, not just think whether it is sense or not.
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The artwork
shown on the photograph above called Merzbau, which is an installation work
created by Kurt Schwitters. Kurt was a German artist that mainly working in
genres and media such as installation, graphic design, sound, poetry etc. He
did very well in collage and he called it Merz, as the representation of his
own concept of Dadaism. Merzbau was one of Kurt’s most successful and
representative assemblage artwork but unfortunately it couldn’t be reserved
because of war and time. Kurt began to build it in early 1920s in Hannover
where was his original home. In 1937, he was exile from his hometown to Norway,
so he started to work in a new Merzbau but similar to the previous one in new
home. After that, he had to move again since he needed to escape from the Nazi
invasion. Finally he built another Merz building in England named as Merzbarn.
The first and the second Merzbau was destroyed by bomb and fire respectively
and the third one was disrepair after Kurt’s death.
Why is
it relating to science? Building this thing must be a very technical work as
the creator should think about mechanic, dynamic, architecture, graphic design…This
work was originally started in his studio, later he occupied the whole
department and transformed all the 6 living room in to Merzbau. Therefore, the
6 normal room was reconstructed into one big installation artwork. There were
added about forty distinct caves, grottoes and rooms in Merzbau but it was
still a family house for residential use. Besides, Kurt was only using found
objects like pieces of wood, rubbish etc. as the materials to build the
majority of his work. More interestingly, he would also use something that
visitors left in his house to decorate the artwork. So that people always found
different when they came back to this house, and of course they might find
their belongings became part of the marvelous artwork! This is one of the
reasons that I love this work so much.
On the
other hand, although Merzbau was built in geometrical-shaped base, the whole
creature didn’t seem making any sense. The non-sense spirit was the main idea
of Merz. This is the only thing that completely differed from science—we should
not always use logical thinking in order to invent a great artwork. Sometime,
we have to borrow the idea or technology from science, but we should also break
the rule, not just think whether it is sense or not.
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