The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 7, 2024
Abandoned Apartment, Dresden-Cotta
2005
(American, b. 1957)
Image: 50.8 x 62.1 cm (20 x 24 7/16 in.); Paper: 61.1 x 74.4 cm (24 1/16 x 29 5/16 in.); Matted: 81.3 x 96.5 cm (32 x 38 in.)
© 2005, Fredrik Marsh
Location: not on view
Description
As part of an ongoing series, Columbus-based photographer Marsh began to photograph vacant, unassuming apartment building interiors in Dresden, Germany, in 2005. In his exploration of the city, he discovered that the inhabitants, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, just walked away from their apartments and former lives. While decay, vandalism, and graffiti now occupy this room, its most prominent feature, located where a window might be, is a mural-sized color poster depicting an idyllic landscape bathed in fall colors, attesting to a former tenant’s desire to be exposed to nature’s beauty.- Contemporary Landscape Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-August 14, 2011).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2010.219