"Future History" is the title of Eiko Grimberg's show in 2010. It refers to the process of exploiting time and history and to the indecisiveness when describing the past or the future. The artist takes a look at Italian Fascism and its relation to avant-garde and focuses on Modern Rationalist architecture of the 1930s.
He demonstrates that the foundation of new cities and prestigious solitaires played a major role in fascism, for example the city of Sabaudia in the Southeast of Rome (built 1933/34), or the Roman district E.U.R. that was built for the "Esposizione Universale di Roma" although the world exhibition in the end didn't take place. The artist took photographs on site. With his black-and-white two-piece slide projection he presents a panorama of prosaicness; a photographic meditation about avant-garde architecture and street life. Both parts of the projection show how history is inscribed in the present. Today, architecture is a tourist attraction; fascist ideology is, at best, communicated in a historically neutral language.
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