Canadian artist Terence Gower's intervention at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona will open this Thursday at 6pm, with singer Ana Brenes accompanied by guitarist Jero Férec.
“El Marge” rewinds the clock to the rough and disorderly urban culture of Barcelona in the late 1920s, when Mies and Lilly Reich were planning and building the original German Pavilion.
The project contrasts the pristine microcosm of the International Exhibition pavilions of 1929, where each country, Germany included, was invited to build a perfect and idealized version of itself; and the decadent and marginal neighbourhoods of the city, which the artist considers the exhibition’s alternative urban cultural context.
On view until November 5, Gower’s intervention subtly contaminates Mies and Reich’s masterpiece with a monumental, ghostly photographic apparition and discreet atmospheric alterations.