THE WINDOWS ARE GOING HOME DIE FENSTER GEHEN NACH HAUSE FINESTRE CHE FUGGONO DALLE CASE Friedensreich Hunderwasser (1928-2000) Mixed media includes watercolour, egg tempera, acrylic, oil and tinfoil on canvas, primed with PV 640 mm x 910 mm Painted in Vienna, 1979 Some people say houses consist of walls. I say houses consist of windows.The windows are going home, a mixed media painting, Hundertwasser believe windows are people to him. The employment of replicated shape, transformation from house to window, from entire world to each individual, while everything is fenced, and the figurative house enters our ‘home’, later transfer to countless circle. The illumination of those little window is vivid and eye-catchy, simultaneously, the reflection of tinfoil serves as a blurry window, which stimulates the residents are the audiences themselves. A residential building, Kegelgasse 36-38, 1030 Vienna, Austria According to Hundertwasser’s ‘Window Dictatorship and Window Rights’, the resident should be allow to draw outside the wall within the dimension your arm would reach. The implication of uniqueness of each building, each window, each family, each individual. The dictatorship of window simulate the empowerment of resident, the private space of each individual whether is it deserved to be divided and indicated. The ideology of individualism reminds me the situation in Hong Kong, when the circumstance is so worse, people cannot even afford to live a house, not to mention whether the house comes with window or not, the basic living atmosphere is being concerned. Where is the paradise?Hundertwasser believes the paradise is here, just we did not notice it, ‘what does a man need in order to be happy’, ‘Progression is retrogression and becomes progression’, he induces the audience our earth is the paradise, but progression makes us neglect how simply the paradise exists. In Hunderwasser’s work, I see the paradise is deeply in our mind, all the struggles in our society, racist abuse, political disputes, social crisis, human evolves, at the same time, we go backward. References
Hundertwasser, ‘Window Dictatorship and Window Rights’, January 22, 1990. Accessed Feburary 28, 2017. http://www.hundertwasser.de/english/texts/philo_fensterdiktatur.php http://www.hundertwasser.de/ https://www.meppen.de/hundertwasser
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