Fragments – Counter Monument / Granada Garcés Arquitectos

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  • Design Team: Carlos Andrés Granada Garcés, Andrés Felipe Duarte Carranza, Rodrigo Pulido Rico
  • Clients: Ministerio de Cultura
  • Engineering: Juan Pablo García – GSA S.A.
  • Construction Company: Gerencia, Construcción y Arquitectura (GSA.SA)
  • City: Bogotá
  • Country: Colombia
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Text description provided by the architects. In conjunction with the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas, it was agreed on to construct three monuments with the weapons and supplies of the war, one in the United Nations, another in Havana and one in Bogotá. The artist Doris Salcedo, who was commissioned for the work in Bogota, decided that a counter-monument, rather than a monument, should be built with the 37 tons of weapons deposed by the more than 13,000 ex-combatants. The sculptural work in question opposed the idea of glorifying violence and monumentalizing weapons and chose to create a floor that today functions as the physical and conceptual basis of this unbiased place that reverses the power relation created by the rifles.

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Cite: "Fragments – Counter Monument / Granada Garcés Arquitectos" [Fragmentos – Contra monumento / Granada Garcés Arquitectos] 28 Jun 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/919792/fragments-nil-counter-monument-granada-garces-arquitectos> ISSN 0719-8884

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