Beton, 2010

Andreas Bunte has long worked on subjects tied to the social history of certain periods of the nineteenth and twentieth century, with particular attention to how, through the study of historical architecture, certain significant cultural aspects of past eras can be reconstructed, almost as if the buildings were refractive prisms of scientific, philosophical, and social ideas in different environmental situations and in different nations. There is something encyclopedic about his way of interpreting old buildings, as if he were seeing in them the emergence of the ancient meaning of medieval cathedrals, with their inextricable compendium of all knowledge and all religion. The historical narration the artist weaves into his films is made up of faithful accounts, based on extensive archival research, along with variations of fantasy and modified reconstructions. [...]