House of ZigZag
c. Michael St.Mark 2007
Although featured in “Snippets” on our Youtube channel, and from 2007; ” House of ZigZag”
makes its first appearance as a definitive London Dada Work. The Merzbau-like house concerned surely lived up to its title … doors ill-fitted to already oddly angled frames as if by a drunk; walls and floors alarmingly out of kilter and windows amply ventilating interior rooms – even when closed.
Quite a trip.
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If it wasn’t a work of art, I’d blame cowboy builders. Thankfully, it IS – so I can appreciate it as such.
Thank you, Michael!
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Kurt Schwitters, the only artist with close connections with the original Zurich Dada group of 1916/7 to have worked in England, created “Merz” art, a strange conglomeration of intense abstract collages, often using discarded items he found in the street etc. Later he started applying his Merz to the inside of buildings, turning them exceedingly zigzag, you might say.
After the war and his internment on the Isle of Man as a POW, he moved to London, then Cumbria and half-completed his “lifes work “, the Merz Barn near Elterwater – before sadly dying prematurely in early 1948. If you check TAGS, above, we did an interesting synopsis of this unique time in Dada history…it’s listed alphabetically under “Kurt Schwitters”.
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I love the house of ZigZag, but I don’t have to live in it.
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It acts as a “safe house”… against outside interferences, the stairs are zigzag enough to make one watch ones step, however.
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