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  • Until Sep 29 2007
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  • Space, The Triangle 129-131 Mare Street, London, E8 3RH
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    Arni Haraldsson, 'Meanwhile Gardens and Trellick Tower'

  • By Sarah Andress

    Posted: Mon Sep 10 2007

  • When the Ronan Point residential tower partially collapsed in 1968, architect Erno Goldfinger, though not the designer, was blamed –so associated was he with post-war, ‘Brutalist’ estate blocks. Arni Haraldsson has taken photographs and collected material that plays with the factual and fictional narratives that have attached themselves to Goldfinger and the architecture of the time; the Thamesmead Estate – used in the film ‘A Clockwork Orange’, or Ian Fleming naming Bond’s enemy ‘Goldfinger’ because of his dislike for the architect’s modernist Hampstead home.

    Haraldsson’s photographs make less of an impact here than his collection of films, books and ephemera. While he does recreate  the dystopian mythology surrounding the architect’s ‘concrete landscapes’, perhaps this could have been further teased out of the material; for instance, making more of the connection between J.G. Ballard’s ‘High Rise’ and the strong likelihood that Trellick Tower inspired the novel’s setting against which a community inhabiting a tower block disintegrates.

    The highlight of the show is Haraldsson’s film ‘Elevator Ride’ in which he interviews a Trellick Tower resident about her unwitting encounter with Goldfinger in 1972, in that same lift. As she recounts their conversation, the steel door of the elevator is unchanging except as it passes the small window on each floor, recalling the transparent slits adorning the building’s exterior which are –depending on who you ask –either liberating (according to the late architect) or menacing (in the eyes of his many foes).
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  • Space,The Triangle 129-131 Mare Street, London, E8 3RH
    , UK
    Geo: 51.539399, -0.056647
  • 020 8525 4338
  • Category: Art
  • Times: Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 12noon-4pm
  • Tube: Bethnal Green
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