Room 7

Room 7

Anne and Patrick Poirier, Elisabeth Scherffig, Hamish Fulton

At the bottom of the steps, on the left of the entrance is a work by the Poirier made for the first Istanbul Biennale (Memoria Mundi, 1989). At either end of the long gallery are drawings by Elisabeth Scherffig.

Looking along the long wall a series of photographs by the Englishman Hamish Fulton, who identifies himself as a ‘walking artist’. The act of walking places a distance between him and his own culture, thus broadening hishorizons

Anne and Patrick Poirier, Elisabeth Scherffig, Hamish Fulton

Michael Badura

In the middle, Michael Badura reconstructs the different versions of three eyewitnesses to a bank robbery in 1970’s Germany, using a series of three panels of photographs.

 Michael Badura

Gianfranco Baruchello, Erik Dietman

Carrying on, Navigazione in solitario (1975) by Gianfranco Baruchello, a major Italian artist of the second half of the 20th century, who died in 2023.

 

Opposite is Stoned in Venice (1962-1975) by the Swedish artist Erik Dietman.

Gianfranco Baruchello, Erik Dietman