Atlas Europe Square

Yves Mettler, Teresa Pullano, Stephen Zepke , Reza Negarestani

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Urbanomic Media Ltd
19 October 2021

Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Globalization

"An artist examines the plethora of Europe Squares, Europa Places, Places de l'Europe, and Europaplatzes and what they tell us about the ideality of ""Europe.""

An artist examines the plethora of Europe Squares, Europa Places, Places de l'Europe, and Europaplatzes and what they tell us about the ideality of ""Europe.""If the built environment is a record of our modes of organization and the compromises we make in order to live together, then what are we to make of the plethora of Europe Squares, Europa Places, Places de l'Europe, and Europaplatzes? Public spaces that connect numerous disparate towns and cities through a ""supersite"" called Europe, they may appear as avatars of an idea in crisis, as ""eurocentric values"" and the concept of Europe as a unified political space are attacked and eroded from all sides.

Atlas Europe Square documents a body of work by Swiss artist Yves Mettler who, since 2003, has engaged in an ongoing mapping and documentation of these sites, along with a series of projects triangulating between particular squares, interrogating their differing architectural, environmental, and public functions, and what they tell us about the ideality of ""Europe"" and the (im)possibility of its concrete instantiation. Here this work is extended into reflections on the relationship between art and public space, site-specificity, and the artist's own implication in the imaginary of Europe as he becomes enmeshed in a network of projects, funds, and public bodies that seek to promote ""European culture"" through art. Alongside extensive photographic documentation, Atlas Europe Square contains texts by the artist alongside essays by Reza Negarestani, Teresa Pullano, Laurent Thevenot, and Stephen Zepke, discussing Mettler's work."

By: Yves Mettler
Contributions by: Teresa Pullano, Stephen Zepke, Reza Negarestani
Imprint: Urbanomic Media Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 330mm, Width: 229mm,
ISBN: 9781913029531
ISBN 10: 1913029530
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 19 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Yves Mettler is an artist with degrees in art and social sciences whose works have been shown internationally. He has previously published the book My Flowers Aren't Always Hiding Secrets. Reza Negarestani is an Iranian philosopher best known for pioneering the genre of ""theory-fiction"" with his book Cyclonopedia. (Urbanomic/Sequence Press)."

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Atlas Europe Square

Yves Mettler, Teresa Pullano, Stephen Zepke , Reza Negarestani

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