Swiss curator Klaus Littmann has accused designer Es Devlin of imitating the temporary forest he created in an Austrian football stadium.
Devlin rejected the claim, saying her project is "very different" from Littmann's.
Littmann said he was "both surprised and irritated" to read about Devlin's Forest for Change project, which will see the courtyard at Somerset House in London filled with 400 trees.
He claimed that Devlin's project for the London Design Biennale is "an imitation" of For Forest, a project that saw 299 trees placed inside the Wörthersee Stadion in Klagenfurt, Austria in 2019.
Klaus Littmann has said Es Devlin's Forest for Change (top) is an imitation of his project at Wörthersee Stadion (above) "If you compare the two images ? the visualisation of the installation in Somerset House and the image of the temporary art installation in the football stadium in Klagenfurt ? you can see the Forest for Change project as an imitation," he told Dezeen.
"It looks like the forest in the football stadium For Forest has been moved to Somerset House," he added.
He said that people have assumed that Devlin's project is an updated version of his own work. "I simply cannot leave this misinterpretation to be unchallenged," he added.
Littmann stopped short of accusing Devlin of copying his project, but said: "Perhaps Es Devlin and her team were inspired by my project."
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