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 Takehiko Nagakura Tatlin's Tower (1919) Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA 1999, 3'12'' Immediately after the Russian revolution, Vladimir Talin, a soviet artist, proposed a monument for the Third International, a steal structure planned to be higher than Tour Eiffel. Although it has never been built, Tallin wanted to put it into San Pietroburgo, the classical Russian capital. Advanced computer graphics allow to visualise this never constructed tower in the urban context. The tower is well known in architecture, but only through Talin's mysterious descriptions, his abstract drawings and his "un-materialised" sculpture models. Studying Talin's sculptural techniques, the équipe who has produced this video added constructural details to the original drawings and realised a proto-modern mega-structural model. At the end, synthetic images have been super-imposed on the original video. The final production emphasises an enormous contrast of proportions and of materials between the city and the tower, being an element of big strength getting its energy from stage designing, from rigid Russian climate and from vibrating Russian language. |
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