Artist Tiger Chengliang Cai, Architecture Plan of the Soviet Palace for an Unknown Era, edition 1 of 1. Architectures are the solid state of ideologies. In this work I’m trying to explore the status between the architectures as functional buildings and architectures as the metaphysical state of ideologies. It’s like transferring the unbuilt Palace of Soviet (1937) architecture plan into a world of Giorgio de Chirico. Ironically enough, all the buildings or any man-made structure in the physical world will eventually turn to the dust and fall back to the ground. Only an architectural plan can last forever in the metaphysical world.
The same design can also be seen in my surrealist experimen...