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Leipzig (dpa) - The Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB) wants to have three unusual wall reliefs from 1968 restored and installed in their new building in Leipzig.
The reliefs were commissioned by the then young artists Arno Rink, Frank Ruddigkeit and Klaus Schwabe, as a spokesman for the SAB announced.
The large-format works by the pioneers of the Leipzig School reflect the euphoric zeitgeist of the “Sputnik Decade” and “Eastern Modernism”.
At the current location of the SAB in Leipzig, there was an administrative center of the former Robotron combine until 2012, where training on GDR computer technology was carried out centrally.
The wall reliefs were created on his behalf.
Under the working title “Life in Socialism - Data Processing”, the artist collective quoted all metaphors of progress that were popular at the time in their visual visions: cybernetics, nuclear power, the conquest of the cosmos.
Chemistry brings prosperity and beauty and optimistic future people defeat gravity, the tides, the elements.
During the dismantling of the administrative center, the works were salvaged with great care, emphasized the SAB spokesman.
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