Isa Genzken’s proposals for Ground Zero

Hospital (Ground Zero), 2008, all images courtesy Hauser & Wirth Zurich/London and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, © Isa Genzken
Currently showing at Hauser & Wirth gallery in London is a series of sculptures by German artist Isa Genzken that are also architectural proposals for Ground Zero in New York. Leave any expectations that this notion may give you at the door, however, for Genzken’s sculptures are far removed from formal architectural models and instead are wild, glitzy forms incorporating materials ranging from everyday household items to flowers.

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