Is Brutalisten an artwork in and of itself? “Yes and no”, says Carsten Höller in an interview with @ryanwaddoups for @surfacemag. “No, because it’s a fully functioning restaurant with no specific difference to other restaurants except the food and, to some extent, the environment. Yes, because it takes you into unexplored culinary territory based on a set of restraining rules, which may evoke a certain primordial, diffuse uneasiness leading to intense, specific pleasure that I often find in good art. I want people to approach this place from their own position, depending on how they look at things—they may see the restaurant’s artworks as the art factor, and that’s totally fine.” At the restaurant, diners will be seated amongst art hand-picked by Höller, including Ana Benaroya, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, and Moké. Photo by Attilio Maranzano