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Entrance to an Underground City, project (Perspective)

Entrance to an Underground City, project (Perspective)

Walter Pichler
Austrian, 1936–2012
1963
A photomontage and graphite drawing that imagines a circular, machine-like entrance sunk into the earth, proposing a formal, monumental threshold to an imagined underground city.
You are first struck by a flat, disc-like plane with a deep, dark slot leading to a compact central void—the photomontage’s solid tonal mass set against tentative, airy pencil marks that let the surrounding landscape dissolve.
Pichler’s 1963 work sits between architectural proposal and sculptural idea, reflecting postwar fascinations with utopian subterranean space and helping to treat drawings as autonomous, provocative visions of alternate urban reality.
Medium
Photomontage and graphite on paper
Dimensions
13 3/4 x 11 3/4" (34.9 x 29.8 cm)
Classification
Credit
Philip Johnson Fund
Accession
567.1963
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