Katharina Gruzei

Name: Katharina Gruzei
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783775750837
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Summary

Katharina Gruzei offers a unique photographic journey through the Moscow Metro, one of the world's largest and deepest subway systems. Over several years, Gruzei captures the aesthetic grandeur and sociocultural significance of this underground network, which serves as both a transit system and a symbolic space reflecting Russia's complex history. The Metro, initially designed as a prestige project and a civil defence bunker, continues to be a vibrant public space where political and social currents intersect.
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Format: Hardback

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This book is ideal for readers interested in urban culture, photography, and Russian history. It appeals to those fascinated by public spaces as social phenomena and anyone keen on exploring the interplay between architecture and society.

Description

The Moscow Metro is a unique place. With a network of 400 kilometres of lines, exceptionally deep tunnels and stations, and nearly nine million passengers a day, it is one of the most heavily frequented underground subway systems in the world.

Katharina Gruzei explored it over several years and now presents an aesthetically fascinating and socioculturally remarkable photographic survey. Ideologically charged and symbolic of Russia's eventful history, the Metro was started as a prestige project and simultaneously conceived to also be used as a bunker. It was always intended as a place for people to congregate and is still today a living space where social, political and societal tendencies are made legible.

With her photo series, the artist enables an extraordinary journey through time and space in the underground of Moscow, a metropolis of millions.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775750837

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 November 2021

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 445 Illustrations

Contributors:

Text by Boris Groys
Designed by Christian Konrad
Text by Andrea Gnam
Text by Valentin Diaconov
Text by Anna Bronovitskaya
Text by Katharina Gruzei

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 320.0mm

Weight: 3000g

Pages: 496

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

KATHARINA GRUZEI (*1983) studied fine arts at the University of Art in Linz and the University of the Arts Berlin. She lives and works in Linz and Vienna as a freelance artist specializing in the media of photography, video, film, sound, and installation.