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WHITE-GREY-BEIGE – Dessau, Germany 100 Jahre Bauhaus Artists: Jürgen Mayer H. and Philip Ursprung Dessau has seen much. A symbol of Modernism the city is identified with the whiteness of Bauhaus architecture. Radical and purist, white stands for the autonomy and exclusivity of architecture. After the Second World War, the white turned grey. The factories were polluting the city and its environment. Grey roughcast became standard. No wonder that bright colors became suspicious. Since the fall of the Berlin wall, the world has changed. Beige, or «broken white» predominates. Beige is the non-color of globalization. Universal, pleasant to the majority, passive aggressive. For the “Radical Bauhaus Festival” Dessau will be decorated with flags. The flags are moving. They are provisionally freed, taken out of the hands of politics. The flags mark a terrain without claiming it for someone alone. They compete with each other, but just for fun. They follow the wind. They show the way and define sites. The white-grey-beige flags do not exclude anyone. They wish to celebrate and play. They ornate Dessau. They are vain like all flags, but also well-tempered and patient. Everybody can use them, even as picnic-blanket or as a rain shelter. Design connects. |
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