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"This architectural portrait of the vast Landeszentralbank in Meiningen echoes the visual language and format that characterises the acclaimed trilogy by Andreas GEHRKE depicting vacant post-war modernist buildings in Germany, although the nature of this book’s subject represents a departure from that series.
Completed in 2000, Hans Kollhoff’s post-modern fortress housed the Landeszentralbank’s Head Office in the state of Thuringia until 2016, when it was closed to be repurposed for its second functional life – this time as a storage facility for contemporary art.
Content
The photographs in self published photo volume 'Landeszentralbank. 2000 - 2016' by Andreas GEHRKE capture the complex in an interim phase, showing anew the spaces and surfaces of a building not immediately discernible beneath the weight of its monumental and technical qualities. In doing so, the work serves not just as a portrait of a building lived according to its originally intended function, but also as a reading of the space that speaks to its life to come. Accompanying the twenty-two images is an essay by Terence Riley, internationally renowned critic and former Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA in New York." (© Drittel books, 2017)