What started out as an invitation to join the project “Platform Austria” at the Austrian Pavilion for the Architecture Biennale in Venice quickly transformed into a much more remote and urgent project when the Biennale was cancelled and then postponed due to the worldwide Covid 19. outbreak. Many of the images reproduced below were produced for the Platform Austria online blog, while others were deemed to be highly relevant to the Biennale theme.

Access: I can’t access Amazon Prime. PtL

“we are only allowed Nokia flip-phones! Dialectics, definition of Hell. PtL. Drawing after Signorelli.

“Ouch! I’ve been bitten by a bitter tweet!” Drawing after Caravaggio, Boy Bitten by a Lizard. PtL.

Putin: “Strong Arm?” Mickey Mouse: “Capitalism!” Kremlin style! PtL.

Access: “And what about us, the artwork, can we refuse to be looked at?” “Or what if we are not what you the public want us to be??” Drawing after Piero della Francesca. PtL.

Access. “The trick is gaining access… is it too easy or too hard?” “Who is granting you access?” Drawing after Machiavelli and Diabolik. PtL.

Access: “The patriarchy is morbid” Drawing after Jacobo Zucchi. PtL.