Armin Linke, CHIESA DI VETRO

Room 10

Take a picture of something and then take a picture of it again by taking a few steps back, so that you can find out if its context can give us more insight into that thing.
Armin Linke

In his global explorations, Armin Linke was drawn to the light architecture of the Glass Church in Baranzate. The parish church of Nostra Signora della Misericordia was designed by Angelo Mangiarotti and Bruno Morassutti in 1957, but the structural calculations by Bruno Favini were of great importance, as they made it possible to create a structure that is completely free in its perimeter. An industrial warehouse turned into a sacred building. At that time, the church had the effect of a satellite from a science fiction film ahead of its time. The church broke down the barriers to the world. The fatigue of time marks those structures made only of light and in need of restoration. Concrete life has now happily metabolised them. Linke captures this transition that has taken place. A sense of pacified expectation pervades the images, as if time, instead of consuming it, is giving more and more body to this space.
Giuseppe Frangi

Armin Linke was born in 1966 in Milan, lives and works in Berlin.