Welcome to Marwencol
Welcome to Marwencol In April 2000, Mark Hogancamp was beaten and left for dead outside a bar in his hometown of Kingston, NY. To reconstruct his past, Hogancamp built, in his backyard, Marwencol, an…
Specifikacia Welcome to Marwencol
Welcome to Marwencol
In April 2000, Mark Hogancamp was beaten and left for dead outside a bar in his hometown of Kingston, NY. To reconstruct his past, Hogancamp built, in his backyard, Marwencol, an imaginary village set in World War II Belgium, where everybody is welcome Germans, Americans, French, British, and Russians as long as peace is kept. Waking from a nine-day coma, he had no memory of the thirty-eight prior years of his life, including his ex-wife, family, artistic talents, or military service.
The emotional narrative mirrors the artist's With 1:6 scale action figures and Barbie dolls, as well as toy armaments and meticulously built props, buildings, and clothes, Marwencol is an alternate reality, created with painstaking (and sometimes painful) realism and obsessive attention to detail.Here, riveting wartime dramas are played out and photographed in saturated hues and unflinching detail.