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Title: Monolith Controversies
Authors: Edited by Pedro Alonso and Hugo Palmarola
Publisher: Hatje
Cantz
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9783775738279
Language: English
Description:
Monolith Controversies is the catalogue of the
Chilean contribution to the 2014 Venice Biennale.
It documents a milestone of modern architecture: an original concrete
panel produced for prefab housing, donated to Chile in 1971 by the
Soviet Union to support president Salvador Allende’s Democratic Road to
Socialism.
This panel has since been the subject of several political and
ideological controversies. Allende himself signed the wet concrete,
only for his gesture to be later covered over by Augusto Pinochet, who
hid it be neath a representation of the Virgin and Child framed by two
colonial lamp fixtures.
Chile received the Silver Lion for a National Participation for Monolith
Controversies. The jury said “Focusing on
one essential
element of modern architecture – a prefabricated concrete wall- it
critically highlights the role of elements of architecture in different
ideological and political contexts.”
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Related: Pavilion of
Chile's web site
