Fascism in Ruins
Dan Dubowitz & Patrick Duerden

10 May — 26 July 2009

 

Fascismo Abbandonato (Fascism in Ruins) took the form of an artwork recording the extraordinary forgotten monuments that artist Dan Dubowitz & architect Patrick Duerden discovered on the Tuscan & Emilio-Romanian coasts between 2005 & 2008.

Since 2005 the pair had been tracking down fascist buildings in northern Italy. By jumping fences & exploring dense & over grown forests they discovered huge & sublime modern ruins, the remains of camps for the vast fascist youth programme. What began as a series of road trips across Italy has become an extraordinary exploration of the archaeology of the present which was presented as photograph light boxes across the gallery.