Slovak National Gallery
Baroque riverside barracks crowned by a brutalist bridge-wing gallery of Slovak art.
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This audio guide to the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava looks at the building rather than the paintings: an eighteenth-century Baroque barracks on the Danube bank and the brutalist wing that architect Vladimír Dedeček raised above it in the nineteen-sixties and seventies. It follows the engineers, the long years the structure stood shut, and the question of what a gallery owes to its own architecture. Best heard on the embankment, facing the river front.
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