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SIMON STARLING AT LUDWIG MUSEUM, BUDAPEST

Simon Starling's exhibition 'Three Birds, Seven Stories, Interpolations and Bifurcations' draws on a number of different, both real and fictitious, versions of the same story - the story of a European architect being employed by a Maharajah to realise an ambitious building project in India, including the involvement of Le Corbusier, Eileen Grey, Marcel Breuer, Lilly Reich, and Constantin Brancusi. The palace also had the first domestic air-conditioning system in India, built and installed by Heinz Riefenstahl, the Berlin-based plumber and brother of filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.



JANE NEAL ON THE BUCHAREST BIENNALE


Maps provide the inspiration for the 2008 incarnation of the Bucharest Biennale. In their apologetic for this concept, curators, Jan-Erik Lundström and Johan Sjöström's claim: 'maps are keen on upsetting or unsettling our faith in representations... they construct and deconstruct realities... they are never perfect, never final, always tentative...and versatile, illuminating and life-saving.'



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