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Cuckoo Block - Leipzig Grünau
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Size: 70 cm x 23 cm x 13 cm
Year: 2023
Signed: Signed on the back
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Serial unicum limited to 25 pieces. Electronic mechanism, with lighting.
Type: Multiples
Sculpture
Technique: Mixed Media
Style: Urban Art
Contemporary
Graffiti

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Guido Zimmermann - Cuckoo Block – Köln Chorweiler
Technique: Mixed Media
Size: 85x26x16 cm
Year: 2023
Signed: Signed on the back
Guido Zimmermann
Cuckoo Block – Köln Chorweiler
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Guido Zimmermann - Cuckoo Block Frankfurt – Bonames
Technique: Mixed Media
Size: 78x25x15 cm
Year: 2022
Edition of: 50
Signed: Signed on the back
Guido Zimmermann
Cuckoo Block Frankfurt – Bonames
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Guido Zimmermann - Cuckoo Block Jena
Technique: Mixed Media
Size: 70x23x12 cm
Year: 2022
Edition of: 50
Signed: Signed on the back
Guido Zimmermann
Cuckoo Block Jena
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Guido Zimmermann - Cuckoo Block Jena HNRX Artist Edition
Technique: Mixed Media
Size: 70x23x12 cm
Year: 2022
Edition of: 10
Signed: Signed on the back
Guido Zimmermann
Cuckoo Block Jena HNRX Artist Edition
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Guido Zimmermann - Cuckoo Block Hamburg/Kirchdorf Süd
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Cuckoo Block Hamburg/Kirchdorf Süd
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Guido Zimmermann

"Cuckoo Blocks" are Zimmermann's answer to the traditional cuckoo clocks from the Black Forest. They show a contemporary take on urban living and interesting architecture. The shell is new, but the soul, a clockwork with cuckoo, is still the old one. Two aspects have a special meaning here: buildings with a striking history and architectural value, and housing in social hotspots. Both have a connection through the blocky, massive concrete construction. The classic cuckoo clock stands for the prosperity of the middle class and counts as a kind of luxury item for the staid home. The updated version as a prefabricated building shows today's urban and social life in apartment blocks. The second aspect of the "Cuckoo Blocks" is no less interesting. For example, Ernő Goldfinger's "Glenkerry House", built in the eye-catching style of Brutalism, was once accommodation for the average citizen. Today it offers the "hip" and hardly affordable housing in London. The hotel "La Flaine" by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer, shows a beautiful architecture, but is a building sin, as this huge hotel complex is located in the middle of the French Alps... Zimmermann has expanded the series of cuckoo clocks with nesting boxes for native songbirds. The prototype, a model of a social building from Catania/Sicily, was quickly inhabited by a pair of titmice. The three normal nesting boxes next door, however, remained uninhabited. Perhaps it was the small
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