A temple is built using 100,000 books of banned books

Governments of countries around the world for some reasonBan discardingUsing a book of 100,000 volumesTemple of ParthenonA replica of it was made. George Orwell's banned by Stalin as the future of the Soviet Union was drawn1984"From the girl and the vampire's boy drawing the unforgivable love"Twilight"Various books are used as building materials of the temple.

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Marta Minujín's The Parthenon of Books is taking shape in Kassel - documenta 14
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It was in 1983 that the "temple of the banned book", which was once banned or banned, was used for the first time in 100,000 volumes of books. Performance Artist'sMarta MinujínBought about 2,000 books as Nazi · Germany and right wing students "anti-German spirit behaviors" on May 19, 1933, Kassel of the German academic city We built a temple at the state park "Friedrichsplatz". Why is it shaped like a Parthenon? When saying, it is because the Parthenon temple is a symbol of democracy.

The state of the time can be seen from the following article.

Building a temple with a banned book - GIGAZINE


The temple in 1983 was built as a symbol to mark the end of Argentina's military dictatorship in history, but Minujín started a project to build a new "temple" from 2016. In addition to gathering 100,000 books from around the world, we created a list of 170 books that had been banned in the past with students from the University of Kassel / Germany and banned only in certain countries , I recruited donations from the general public.

The temple has been held in Germany since July 16, 2017 "Documenta 14It was one of the exhibits of "Construction was proceeding from October 2016.

The following is the state of construction. A book is wrapped around a temple of framework only.


The pillar as seen from the side.


As being built outdoors, one book is packaged so that banning books will not be damaged.


A state of the worker. Looking from afar, it is beautiful as the book looks like a colorful mosaic.


This time the Parthenon temple was used by Albert Einstein's "General Relativity Theory", Stephanie Meyer's "TwilightTo the series, a wide range. You can also see the picture book from the photograph.


This is a completed figure.



It was lighted up at night.


The ceiling is open.


With the appearance of a person, I can understand its enormity.


0 04040 04040 04040 040 01984", Dan Brown's"Da Vinci Code", Mickey Mouse, work collection of Franz Kafka"Das Werk"And so on are wrapped around.


In addition, these books can be brought back to the visitors freely on the final day of the exhibition.


The state of the temple under construction can be seen from the following movie.

Marta Minujin: The Parthenon of Books / Documenta 14 Kassel - YouTube