Hansel & Gretel
Tom Eccles and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Curators: “Hansel & Gretel is the latest work in the complex and exceptionally fruitful collaboration between Pritzker Prize winning Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (architects for the Armory’s renovation) and the Chinese artist/activist Ai Weiwei. Having worked together for fifteen years in the field of art and architecture, never defining their roles and thus creating unexpected results, they have collaborated on projects such as the “Bird’s Nest” stadium for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and the 2012 pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in London. Hansel & Gretel brings together their combined interests in the psychological impact of architecture and the politics of public space; creating a playful, strange and eventually eerie environment with different layers of reality revealed to the visitors first in the Drill Hall and then in the Head House of the Park Avenue Armory. The initial impulse for the project was to transform the vast Wade Thompson Drill Hall into a public park, a place of free movement and play, open 24 hours and accessible from street level.
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