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Join the conversation! Eugene Smith, Arnd Wiegmann born in started out in the business in Cologne before joining the German edition of Reuters. Wiegmann still works for the press agency but is now based in Zurich, from where he travels the length and breadth of Switzerland to "portray the myriad facets of Swiss society", notably with a few Swiss Press Awards in his pocket.
His photo-reportage on Switzerland's recycled decommissioned bunkers was shown around the world in — from the room La Claustra hotel buried in the Gotthard Massif, the Fuchsegg fortress on the Furka Pass, the mushroom factory in Erstfeld and the Giswil cheese dairy to a data centre so large it would have been able to contain over a thousand soldiers. Wiegmann's work has done a great deal to raise the visibility of Switzerland's bunkers internationally. On the Andermatt side, a new concert hall is being designed in an old bunker attached to a larger building complex by London-based Studio Seilern Architects.
But don't think Switzerland is the only refuge for these refined, concrete constructions — just type bunker to see how successful this style is! In at the MAMCO in Geneva , the North American artist showcased her bunker replica adorned with psychedelic fluorescent images and kitted out with the regulation equipment — a space that "looked inhabited and Directing her scathing irony first and foremost at the vernacular culture in the US, O'Neill born in hijacked the aesthetics of these protected spaces by combining two different milieus — the hippies and the survivalists.
Fifteen years after the creation of this installation, there is no end to the number of major doomsday projects all over the world The work depicts a "universe built to protect people from their fellow human beings, but from which they themselves are also absent" in the words of Christian Bernard.
A universe where humans shine by their absence
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