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Frustrated by Morocco’s rigid educational system of the 1990s, art teacher Hicham Benohoud used photography as a pedagogical tool, creating a makeshift darkroom in his classroom to foster collaborative and hands-on learning, encouraging students to engage with creativity and identity. The resulting images created with his students are marked by tension and alienation,(...)
Hicham Benohoud: The Classroom
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Frustrated by Morocco’s rigid educational system of the 1990s, art teacher Hicham Benohoud used photography as a pedagogical tool, creating a makeshift darkroom in his classroom to foster collaborative and hands-on learning, encouraging students to engage with creativity and identity. The resulting images created with his students are marked by tension and alienation, blending absurdity, humour, and unease in their exquisitely framed and obliquely disarming compositions. In juxtaposing the monotony of the classroom with a visual exploration of both freedom and control, The Classroom builds a playful and existential critique of postcolonial identity, where childlike creative gestures merge into a more ambiguous aesthetic that hints at oppression, violence and isolation.
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Between 1985 and 2002, British New Brutalist architects Alison (1928–93) and Peter Smithson (1923–2003) transformed a modest vernacular cottage into one of the most remarkable residences of the late 20th century: the Hexenhaus. Hidden in the forests outside of Hessen, Germany, the "Witch's House" was the residence of Axel Bruchhäuser, owner of the furniture company Tecta,(...)
Dear Axel...99 postcards from Alison and Peter Smithson
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Between 1985 and 2002, British New Brutalist architects Alison (1928–93) and Peter Smithson (1923–2003) transformed a modest vernacular cottage into one of the most remarkable residences of the late 20th century: the Hexenhaus. Hidden in the forests outside of Hessen, Germany, the "Witch's House" was the residence of Axel Bruchhäuser, owner of the furniture company Tecta, which had its factory nearby. The Smithsons completely redefined the relationship between the house and its surrounding landscape by means of more than 20 small additions, extractions, satellite buildings, furnishings and alternative routes. During this decades-long process, the couple kept close correspondence with Bruchhäuser, as evidenced by this collection of 99 handwritten postcards, collected here for the first time. Following Walther König's publication of "Hexenhaus: A house for a man and a cat" (2021), this publication offers a new, intimate perspective on this ambitious project.
Architecture Monographs
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This book gathers a selection of 25 collective housing projects built in Mexico City in the 21st century. Neither monuments nor cookie-cutter molds, these examples actively participate in the urban fabric by reintroducing the human and communal element into the city.
Living in Mexico City: 25 Collective housing of the 21st century
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This book gathers a selection of 25 collective housing projects built in Mexico City in the 21st century. Neither monuments nor cookie-cutter molds, these examples actively participate in the urban fabric by reintroducing the human and communal element into the city.
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Mosca 1962
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In the summer of 1962, while still a university student of architecture, Andrea Branzi went to visit his brother Piergiorgio in Moscow, where he was working as a Rai correspondent. This was the world of the Cold War, but the "thaw" heralded by Nikita Khrushchev had somewhat loosened the grip of the Soviet regime. The young Branzi took the chance to wander around the city,(...)
Mosca 1962
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In the summer of 1962, while still a university student of architecture, Andrea Branzi went to visit his brother Piergiorgio in Moscow, where he was working as a Rai correspondent. This was the world of the Cold War, but the "thaw" heralded by Nikita Khrushchev had somewhat loosened the grip of the Soviet regime. The young Branzi took the chance to wander around the city, exploring it from top to bottom. With a curiosity for everything, he was struck by the immense size of the capital, by its new neighbourhoods, by the signs of communism and its history, by the omnipresence of the military, but also by the relaxed outlook of the youth, the department stores, the Russians' carefree relationship with nature, the innocence of the children and the widespread love of chess.
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Carlos Bunga: Inhabit the Contradiction is an extensive monograph devoted to the work of Carlos Bunga, published in conjunction with his eponymous exhibition presented at CAM – Gulbenkian. The book contains notes by the exhibition curator and catalogue editor, Rui Mateus Amaral, who introduces readers to the exhibition project, providing an in-depth account of its genesis(...)
Carlos Bunga: Inhabit the contradiction
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Carlos Bunga: Inhabit the Contradiction is an extensive monograph devoted to the work of Carlos Bunga, published in conjunction with his eponymous exhibition presented at CAM – Gulbenkian. The book contains notes by the exhibition curator and catalogue editor, Rui Mateus Amaral, who introduces readers to the exhibition project, providing an in-depth account of its genesis and development, focusing on the dialogue between Bunga's work and selected pieces from the CAM collection. The notes describe both Bunga's new and existing works, as well as their configuration within the space, with the intention of opening up multiple points of access to the exhibition, leaving room for individual interpretation. Designed by as ilhas studio, the catalogue also contains new essays by various authors written especially for the occasion—Rina Carvajal, Roland Groenenboom, Omar Kholeif, November Paynter, and Catarina Rosendo—each offering an in-depth look at salient aspects of the artist's multifaceted practice.
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Kuehn Malvezzi: House of one
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"The House of one" is a bold proposal by three local communities to build a house of prayer and learning for Jews, Christians, and Muslims in central Berlin. The design, which was the result of an international competition won by architects Kuehn Malvezzi in 2012, is to be built on the existing foundations of St. Petri Church, the first documented site in Berlin's(...)
Kuehn Malvezzi: House of one
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"The House of one" is a bold proposal by three local communities to build a house of prayer and learning for Jews, Christians, and Muslims in central Berlin. The design, which was the result of an international competition won by architects Kuehn Malvezzi in 2012, is to be built on the existing foundations of St. Petri Church, the first documented site in Berlin's history. The concept of the House of One is based on dialogue and an understanding of other faiths. As well as being a place of worship, it will be an educational center open to everyone. The sequence of spaces follows the principle of multiplicity within unity and heterogeneity within a single building. Although their rituals are different, coming together around a central hall in one building aspires to the universal.
Architecture Monographs
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The existing art historical narrative on the early career and development of Donald Judd—a landmark figure in the history of postwar art—focuses predominantly on activities and reception in his homeland. As the artist established his formal and conceptual language and received his first critical and institutional recognition in the United States, remarkably little(...)
Donald Judd: The Low Countries, 1966–1971
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The existing art historical narrative on the early career and development of Donald Judd—a landmark figure in the history of postwar art—focuses predominantly on activities and reception in his homeland. As the artist established his formal and conceptual language and received his first critical and institutional recognition in the United States, remarkably little attention has been paid to what has happened on the other side of the Atlantic. Writing from Antwerp, Belgium and working with a rich array of sources from archives in Belgium and The Netherlands, Wouter Davids discloses that during the early years of his European career, Judd could count on significant critical and institutional interest in the European region better known as the Low Countries. The starting point is an interview with Judd for Belgian Radio and Television (BRT) from 1970, published here for the first time.
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Festina Lente n.04
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Le quatrième et dernier numéro de la revue qui prolonge et élargit les questionnements soulevés par le programme thématique du centre d'art La Criée à Rennes, imaginant avec des artistes, des penseuses et des penseurs, des formes d'adaptations, d'alternatives et de résistances aux diverses crises actuelles, écologiques, postcoloniales, politiques et sociales, s'articule(...)
Festina Lente n.04
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Le quatrième et dernier numéro de la revue qui prolonge et élargit les questionnements soulevés par le programme thématique du centre d'art La Criée à Rennes, imaginant avec des artistes, des penseuses et des penseurs, des formes d'adaptations, d'alternatives et de résistances aux diverses crises actuelles, écologiques, postcoloniales, politiques et sociales, s'articule autour de nos liens au passé.
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Photographie et écologie
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Dès son essor, la photographie est inextricablement liée à l'écologie – par sa matérialité et par ce qu'elle donne à voir. Ce livre présente quinze artistes qui tissent des liens avec des écosystèmes en mouvement. À travers cinq chapitres organisés autour de registres émotionnels, l'autrice met en perspective ces pratiques artistiques contemporaines avec l'histoire du(...)
Photographie et écologie
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Dès son essor, la photographie est inextricablement liée à l'écologie – par sa matérialité et par ce qu'elle donne à voir. Ce livre présente quinze artistes qui tissent des liens avec des écosystèmes en mouvement. À travers cinq chapitres organisés autour de registres émotionnels, l'autrice met en perspective ces pratiques artistiques contemporaines avec l'histoire du médium photographique. Elle propose une entrée en matière, une invitation au dialogue, une mise en relation sensible et critique des images et de l'écologie. La collection « Superscripte » propose des textes introductifs et synthétiques sur des pratiques photographiques contemporaines dans toutes leur diversité, par le prisme d'une notion unique – l'exposition, la violence ou l'image-objet. En conjuguant des ouvrages écrits par des artistes, des chercheurs et chercheuses ou des critiques, il s'agit de valoriser les subjectivités personnelles et les compétences qui découlent des différentes manières de penser les images. Imaginée pour les photographes, les historien·ne·s de l'art ou un public amateur, cette série souhaite donner les clés pour appréhender certaines thématiques ou formes photographiques, omniprésentes dans la culture visuelle d'aujourd'hui.
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Accattone n.09
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Accattone 9 rassemble une réflexion sur les fluctuations entre affirmation et déni ainsi que sur les opérations matérielles et conceptuelles liées à la saleté. Ce numéro présente une résidence artistique réassemblée, des meubles fabriqués à partir de matériaux de récupération (et de boulons neufs), de la marqueterie sur cloison sèche, une ferme punk, la plus ancienne(...)
Accattone n.09
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Accattone 9 rassemble une réflexion sur les fluctuations entre affirmation et déni ainsi que sur les opérations matérielles et conceptuelles liées à la saleté. Ce numéro présente une résidence artistique réassemblée, des meubles fabriqués à partir de matériaux de récupération (et de boulons neufs), de la marqueterie sur cloison sèche, une ferme punk, la plus ancienne construction troglodytique, des toilettes recouvertes de plumes d'oie, des voitures enfouies sous l'asphalte, des faux ongles, des murs en gabions, des trucs poilus, de la boue, une recette pour des murs et des dalles en béton, une façade en sacs de sable, une théorie nourrie aux vers, une fontaine qui fuit, des fatbergs théoriques et le oui du non.
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