Video: Pocket city. 387 Miniature Houses by Peter Fritz
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
At the International Biennale of Art, which is now taking place in Venice, a rather unusual project is presented - 387 paper-glued miniature housescreated by the almost legendary Austrian artist By Peter Fritz.
The 2013 Venice Art Biennale is in full swing. And this large international exhibition has already presented several large-scale and iconic art projects. For example, the prison autobiography S. A. C. R. E. D. from the Chinese "patriarch" Ai Weiwei or a whole city of pocket scale, elements of which were created by the artist Peter Fritz.
Rather, the latter was not so much an artist as a modest insurance agent from Austria who, as a hobby, pasted miniature paper houses, which are copies of real buildings in his city. This is the town hall, and residential buildings, and farms, and shops, and gas stations, and churches, and many other structures, without which not a single settlement can do.
The work of Peter Fritz would have remained unknown after his death, if not for the accidental discovery of these works by the artist Oliver Croy (Oliver Croy). A few years ago, the latter discovered 387 miniature paper houses in a junk shop, each neatly wrapped in a plastic bag.
Oliver Croy was struck by such an amazing talent of a hitherto unknown artist, the precision with which Peter Fritz painstakingly created his works. Day after day, year after year, the Austrian glued paper models of buildings, eventually building a whole city.
This paper city from Peter Fritz and is now presented at the International Art Biennale in Venice.
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