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The factual and the latitude of fiction: numerous artists, especially of the younger generation, have addressed this topic. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the cities in Central and Eastern Europe have been continually remodeled. The transformations usually result in the disappearance of buildings with a socialist or post-socialist influence, with which the artists in Sofia, Riga, Vilnius or Dresden grew up. But the new urban planning according to western patterns doesn't just raise questions about their aesthetic legitimacy. Ultimately, they supplant any other view of the world. Thus, the building of cities becomes a question of power, and architecture becomes an instrument of ideology. Yane Calovski, who, with his recent project Ponder Pause Process at the Tate Britain dealt with that museum's warehouse in order to analyze structures of collecting and conservation, shares that view. The artist began his research in 2004, when the Macedonian government wanted to sell centrally-located plots of land in the city in order to create space for - among other things - a new United States embassy. Master Plan, a continuous conceptual work, was part of the exhibition The Rest of Now, at the 7th Manifesta in 2008 in South Tyrol. For that show, the artist borrowed Tange's large, historical architectural model from the Museum of the City of Skopje - as a visual complement to his drawings, and as a symbol of what was once seen as the future.
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