K13  2009

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... “I believe”, says Zlatko Kopljar, “that with K13 I can establish a deeper connection between imagination and reality. I want to open a new field of truly common values. I would like this tower to become a house of light for this city in near future, a meeting and exchange place for the citizens of Zagreb. In this work I would like to link two concepts that normally get confused by city-planners, politicians, and project developers: the city as a theatre of collective awareness and the city as a theatre of collective, real events.”10 The civitas terrena of Zagreb is juxtaposed to a visionary event city of the artist: he means neither the old city centres of a European city, nor the churches with their sacred objects or apparition potential, also not shopping malls that will have an increasing impact on Zagreb, but a place of myth generation, of a real event, in complete opposition to the event location.....