corviale
One Kilometer, One Roof, 8.000 People
Corridors extending an entire kilometer, insurmountable stairways, graphic codes, illegally occupied zones, vast murals. That is Corviale a housing project on the outskirts of Rome.
The idea for new residential concepts in Rome emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. The 'giant snake' was built between 1975 and 1982. Ten storeys high, almost one kilometer long and about 8,000 inhabitants - that's an entire city in a single building.
Corviale is also an architectural and social manifesto. It is charged with the traces of social life. The photographic work follows these traces and moves along the fault line between plan and reality.
The Project
The Austrian photographer Otto Hainzl lived in this [...] architectural manifesto for weeks and documented it. His pictures show …”
Max Moor in titel, thesen, temperamente (ARD, german television)
... now, what do the pictures show? His photographic work moves along the line of friction between "plan and reality". A team of around 30 architects is planning something, namely their vision of an ideal city. The plan gets implemented. Then the reality takes place - and looks different. It has to look different, that is in the nature of things. A plan can never be reality, but it can lead to new realities - corviale is one of which.
This is already hinted on the cover of the book. A plan in the form of a banderole is wrapped around and can be unfolded. My essay in the book is also entitled "Plan and Reality". ∆ The line of friction will be explained in the next version of this website.
The Book
Published by KEHRER Verlag, Heidelberg; 120 Pages, 55 Color Photos plus archive material
ISBN 3-8682-8596-2
Essays in the book, written by
Angelika Fitz (Urbanism)
Gabriele Kaiser (Architecture)
Martin Hochleitner (Photo Theory)
Otto Hainzl (Subjective Matters)
An 80 cm long facsimile of the original plan is included as a banderole. Archive material & bibliography round off the work to give an overall impression of the Corviale living environment.
Available as an edition with inlay print, signed and numbered by the author. The Book and prints are available, just write a mail.
Video - ttt Max Moor
The corviale Projekt on German Television
German television has produced a nice summary of the project, moderated by Max Moor in “titel, thesen, temperamente“.
Exhibitions
→ bautzner69 Dresden (D), 2022
→ Halle-Neustadt (D), 2016
→ Rathausgalerie & Marler Stern, Marl (D), 2016
→ Fotohof Salzburg (A), 2015
→ KUNST HAUS WIEN (A), 2015
→ OÖ Landesgalerie Linz (A), 2015
→ The City and Me, Linz (A), 2015
→ MAK, Wien – photo::vienna (A), 2015
→ Winner of the eyes-on – Month of Photography Portfolio Review, Vienna (A), 2014
The Project in Press and on TV
→ Parnass 1/2015 (page 12)
→ EIKON 2015 #90 (pages 18-23)
→ Photonews, Edition Summer 2015
→ arte Video Documentation
→ corviale in „Das Erste“ (German Television), titel, thesen temperamente (cf. above)
Artist Talk
Video of the artist talk on the occasion of the book presentation with Mag. Gabriele Spindler of the OÖ Landesgalerie. Credits: Video Aranka Jell, thanks to dorfTV.
corviale Gallery
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