2024-11-23T21:21:56-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150075734/is-that-le-corbusier-s-villa-savoye-floating-in-a-danish-fjord Alexander Walter 2018-07-31T13:57:00-04:00 >2021-10-12T01:42:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e3/e38d92ba8001c650d0ddb0f0b1c66502.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>A five-tonne, 6m tall model of Le Corbusier&rsquo;s Villa Savoye has been towed into a fjord in Denmark and subsequently sunk as part of a summer art exhibition. Created by Danish artist Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, the installation appears as a half-submerged vision of a once visionary future. It&rsquo;s also a critical comment on the importance of modernity today.</p></em><br /><br /><p>"The project is a critical comment on the current status of modernity after the scandals of Cambridge Analytica, the Trump election and Brexit," Danish artist <a href="http://www.asmundhavsteen.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen</a> tells <em>ICON Magazine</em>.</p> <p>"After these scandals, I think our sense of democracy and the public sphere has been distorted through the new use of digital technologies to manipulate elections. Our sense of Modernity has been 'flooded'. I sense the need to 're-state' our political institutions - because our old ones have 'sunk'."</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.vejlemuseerne.dk/exhibition/floating-art-2018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Floating Art 2018</a> festival is still running until September 2 in the Danish town of&nbsp;Vejle.</p>