Beck & Eggeling opens `Dessau Files` with photographs by Joachim Brohm
(Artdaily.org)

Brohm uses imagery and stylistic devices that transcend the documentary medium to examine the differences in appearance of some of the iconic Bauhaus buildings. A century after the founding of the Bauhaus, these buildings are in varying stages of preservation and conservation, restoration and renovation, demolition, rebuilding, interpretation, and even reinterpretation. In what way does our approach to this cultural heritage change our perception of it? »Dessau Files« brings together a selection of different images from three groups of works photographed at different times in Dessau by the German artist. Although created independently of each other, the projects are linked thematically and by their location. Brohm has focused on Dessau as a unique modernist space since 1990. The few remaining masters’ houses, built