The Great Vienna Auto-Expander
Collage
1969 (made)
1969 (made)
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This collage is a student design project for a parking garage situated in Karlsplatz, Vienna. It is the key surviving work by a short-lived but influential architectural group who formed part of the experimental scene in Austria in the late 1960s. The design offers a commentary on the consumer culture and car fetishism of the period.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | The Great Vienna Auto-Expander (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Collage |
| Brief description | 'The Great Vienna Auto Expander', architectural collage by the Zund-Up group, 1969 |
| Physical description | The work depicts the entrance to a garage which is imagined as a gigantic pinball machine, designed to 'flip' the cars around as if they were pinballs. |
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| Summary | This collage is a student design project for a parking garage situated in Karlsplatz, Vienna. It is the key surviving work by a short-lived but influential architectural group who formed part of the experimental scene in Austria in the late 1960s. The design offers a commentary on the consumer culture and car fetishism of the period. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.469-2008 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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