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Some art is dismissed as "difficult"--difficult because of the media it employs, but even more so because of the sociopolitical themes it addresses. This art is often conceptual or performative, works cross-disciplinarily with architecture and design, and critically examines social parameters and the role of the media. Its media is naturally mixed, spanning and going(...)
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Some art is dismissed as "difficult"--difficult because of the media it employs, but even more so because of the sociopolitical themes it addresses. This art is often conceptual or performative, works cross-disciplinarily with architecture and design, and critically examines social parameters and the role of the media. Its media is naturally mixed, spanning and going(...)
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Occupying space : Sammlung Generali Foundation collection
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Some art is dismissed as "difficult"--difficult because of the media it employs, but even more so because of the sociopolitical themes it addresses. This art is often conceptual or performative, works cross-disciplinarily with architecture and design, and critically examines social parameters and the role of the media. Its media is naturally mixed, spanning and going beyond photography, film, video, and installation, all of which allow for process-oriented engagement. The Generali Foundation in Vienna has devoted much of its collection, exhibition energy, and research focus to this "difficult" type of artwork. Though many of the artists that form its collection are part of the canon of recent art history, they are mostly underrepresented in institutions--but not the Generali Foundation. Occupying Space presents a dense, comprehensive selection of projects from its collection by such artists as Valie Export, Andrea Fraser, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Hans Hollein, Mary Kelly, Gordon Matta-Clark, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Peter Weibel, and Franz West, together with brief, articulate texts on their work.
Occupying space : Sammlung Generali Foundation collection
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Some art is dismissed as "difficult"--difficult because of the media it employs, but even more so because of the sociopolitical themes it addresses. This art is often conceptual or performative, works cross-disciplinarily with architecture and design, and critically examines social parameters and the role of the media. Its media is naturally mixed, spanning and going beyond photography, film, video, and installation, all of which allow for process-oriented engagement. The Generali Foundation in Vienna has devoted much of its collection, exhibition energy, and research focus to this "difficult" type of artwork. Though many of the artists that form its collection are part of the canon of recent art history, they are mostly underrepresented in institutions--but not the Generali Foundation. Occupying Space presents a dense, comprehensive selection of projects from its collection by such artists as Valie Export, Andrea Fraser, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Hans Hollein, Mary Kelly, Gordon Matta-Clark, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Peter Weibel, and Franz West, together with brief, articulate texts on their work.
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mars 2004, Vienna
mars 2004, Vienna
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Ed Ruscha : the drawn word
Ed Ruscha : the drawn word
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"The Drawn Word" collects Ed Ruscha's work on paper, from his gunpowder drawings of the 60s and 70s through his more recent work from the 90s. Ruscha's treatment of language, of signs and words, has been extremely influential over the last 40 years. His delicate use of a variety of media, from gunpowder to pastel, makes his work on paper some of his most important. In(...)
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"The Drawn Word" collects Ed Ruscha's work on paper, from his gunpowder drawings of the 60s and 70s through his more recent work from the 90s. Ruscha's treatment of language, of signs and words, has been extremely influential over the last 40 years. His delicate use of a variety of media, from gunpowder to pastel, makes his work on paper some of his most important. In(...)
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mars 2004, Vero Beach, Florida
mars 2004, Vero Beach, Florida
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Ed Ruscha : the drawn word
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"The Drawn Word" collects Ed Ruscha's work on paper, from his gunpowder drawings of the 60s and 70s through his more recent work from the 90s. Ruscha's treatment of language, of signs and words, has been extremely influential over the last 40 years. His delicate use of a variety of media, from gunpowder to pastel, makes his work on paper some of his most important. In them, he comments on our relationships with certain words, employing their visual impact, sound, and meaning, bringing all of these elements together via humor, among other tools. The work is distinctly American in its references to evocative places, like Hollywood, and in its bold, often mono-syllabic style of communication. Appropriately, the design of "The Drawn Word" evidences a conceptual relationship to the work, incorporating layout grids in reference to Ruscha's interest in commercial design, and phonetic translations of each of Ruscha's words to emphasize the importance of sound in their choosing.
Ed Ruscha : the drawn word
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"The Drawn Word" collects Ed Ruscha's work on paper, from his gunpowder drawings of the 60s and 70s through his more recent work from the 90s. Ruscha's treatment of language, of signs and words, has been extremely influential over the last 40 years. His delicate use of a variety of media, from gunpowder to pastel, makes his work on paper some of his most important. In them, he comments on our relationships with certain words, employing their visual impact, sound, and meaning, bringing all of these elements together via humor, among other tools. The work is distinctly American in its references to evocative places, like Hollywood, and in its bold, often mono-syllabic style of communication. Appropriately, the design of "The Drawn Word" evidences a conceptual relationship to the work, incorporating layout grids in reference to Ruscha's interest in commercial design, and phonetic translations of each of Ruscha's words to emphasize the importance of sound in their choosing.
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mars 2004, Vero Beach, Florida
mars 2004, Vero Beach, Florida
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While lying on the beach in Nice one day, eighteen-year-old Yves Klein and his friends decided to divide the world up among themselves. Klein (1928-1962) chose the air, the cloudless sky. He remained fascinated with the element and its immaterial quality throughout his life. In the late fifties, he and the German architect Werner Ruhnau developed plans for an(...)
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While lying on the beach in Nice one day, eighteen-year-old Yves Klein and his friends decided to divide the world up among themselves. Klein (1928-1962) chose the air, the cloudless sky. He remained fascinated with the element and its immaterial quality throughout his life. In the late fifties, he and the German architect Werner Ruhnau developed plans for an(...)
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juillet 2004, Ostfildern
juillet 2004, Ostfildern
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Air architecture : Yves Klein
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While lying on the beach in Nice one day, eighteen-year-old Yves Klein and his friends decided to divide the world up among themselves. Klein (1928-1962) chose the air, the cloudless sky. He remained fascinated with the element and its immaterial quality throughout his life. In the late fifties, he and the German architect Werner Ruhnau developed plans for an "architecture of air" composed of walls and roofs of air-as represented, for example, in the idea of the "Temple of the Elements" with fountains of water and fire and a café protected against the rain only by air currents. Klein associated this idea with a philosophy of optimism devoted to the creation of a paradise on earth, a Garden of Eden in which human beings would be free to pursue their own interests. The publication is the first book devoted exclusively to this aspect of Yves Klein's art. It includes reproductions of drawings and other works as well as essays and lectures on the subject. Additional articles by other authors emphasize the significance of Klein's work to the theme of the immaterial.
Air architecture : Yves Klein
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While lying on the beach in Nice one day, eighteen-year-old Yves Klein and his friends decided to divide the world up among themselves. Klein (1928-1962) chose the air, the cloudless sky. He remained fascinated with the element and its immaterial quality throughout his life. In the late fifties, he and the German architect Werner Ruhnau developed plans for an "architecture of air" composed of walls and roofs of air-as represented, for example, in the idea of the "Temple of the Elements" with fountains of water and fire and a café protected against the rain only by air currents. Klein associated this idea with a philosophy of optimism devoted to the creation of a paradise on earth, a Garden of Eden in which human beings would be free to pursue their own interests. The publication is the first book devoted exclusively to this aspect of Yves Klein's art. It includes reproductions of drawings and other works as well as essays and lectures on the subject. Additional articles by other authors emphasize the significance of Klein's work to the theme of the immaterial.
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juillet 2004, Ostfildern
juillet 2004, Ostfildern
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Donald Judd
Donald Judd
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One of the most influential American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd changed the course of modern sculpture. Beginning as an art critic and then a painter, Judd moved into three dimensions with the box-like structures he produced in the early 1960s, either arranged on the gallery floor or mounted on the wall. Initially constructed by hand, the sculptures were(...)
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One of the most influential American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd changed the course of modern sculpture. Beginning as an art critic and then a painter, Judd moved into three dimensions with the box-like structures he produced in the early 1960s, either arranged on the gallery floor or mounted on the wall. Initially constructed by hand, the sculptures were(...)
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Donald Judd
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One of the most influential American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd changed the course of modern sculpture. Beginning as an art critic and then a painter, Judd moved into three dimensions with the box-like structures he produced in the early 1960s, either arranged on the gallery floor or mounted on the wall. Initially constructed by hand, the sculptures were later industrially manufactured in galvanized iron, steel, plexiglass, and plywood. His use of vibrant color, polished and reflective metals, and brightly hued lacquer confounded and continues to confound expectations of what "minimalist" sculpture should look like. This lavishly illustrated survey features 41 works from collections around the world, many of them large scale, each illustrated with full catalogue entries alongside many other major works by Judd. Contributors Nicholas Serota (Director of the Tate), Rudi Fuchs (former Director of The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam), American critics Richard Schiff and David Raskin, and British artist and critic David Batchelor explore the conflicts between previous critical interpretations of Judd and his own philosophical, political, and moral understanding of his work. Judd's critical response to the work of other artists is examined, as is the importance of color to his work, and his reaction to new man-made materials and artificially generated color in the late-20th-century environment. A section on Judd's installations at Marfa in Texas, and an extensive new chronology, compiled by Judd's assistant, Jeff Kopie, are also included. "Donald Judd" compromises the most thorough and up-to-date publication on Judd in print today.
Donald Judd
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One of the most influential American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd changed the course of modern sculpture. Beginning as an art critic and then a painter, Judd moved into three dimensions with the box-like structures he produced in the early 1960s, either arranged on the gallery floor or mounted on the wall. Initially constructed by hand, the sculptures were later industrially manufactured in galvanized iron, steel, plexiglass, and plywood. His use of vibrant color, polished and reflective metals, and brightly hued lacquer confounded and continues to confound expectations of what "minimalist" sculpture should look like. This lavishly illustrated survey features 41 works from collections around the world, many of them large scale, each illustrated with full catalogue entries alongside many other major works by Judd. Contributors Nicholas Serota (Director of the Tate), Rudi Fuchs (former Director of The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam), American critics Richard Schiff and David Raskin, and British artist and critic David Batchelor explore the conflicts between previous critical interpretations of Judd and his own philosophical, political, and moral understanding of his work. Judd's critical response to the work of other artists is examined, as is the importance of color to his work, and his reaction to new man-made materials and artificially generated color in the late-20th-century environment. A section on Judd's installations at Marfa in Texas, and an extensive new chronology, compiled by Judd's assistant, Jeff Kopie, are also included. "Donald Judd" compromises the most thorough and up-to-date publication on Judd in print today.
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mars 2004, London
mars 2004, London
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This book was published to celebrate the opening of the Hayward Pavilion and foyer extension in October 2003. The highlight of the project is an elliptical, two-way-mirrored-glass pavilion designed by New York based artist Dan Graham, who conceived and developed the project with Haworth Tompkins Architects. The redeveloped foyer also includes a new café, space for talks,(...)
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This book was published to celebrate the opening of the Hayward Pavilion and foyer extension in October 2003. The highlight of the project is an elliptical, two-way-mirrored-glass pavilion designed by New York based artist Dan Graham, who conceived and developed the project with Haworth Tompkins Architects. The redeveloped foyer also includes a new café, space for talks,(...)
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octobre 2003, London
octobre 2003, London
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Waterloo sunset at the Hayward Gallery
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This book was published to celebrate the opening of the Hayward Pavilion and foyer extension in October 2003. The highlight of the project is an elliptical, two-way-mirrored-glass pavilion designed by New York based artist Dan Graham, who conceived and developed the project with Haworth Tompkins Architects. The redeveloped foyer also includes a new café, space for talks, events and entertainment and improved disability access. This publication follows the development of this innovative project and includes excerpts from an interview with Dan Graham, by Mark Francis. Packed with images of the building project, architectural plans and models, the book provides a fascinating insight into a prestigious collaboration between artist and architect.
Waterloo sunset at the Hayward Gallery
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This book was published to celebrate the opening of the Hayward Pavilion and foyer extension in October 2003. The highlight of the project is an elliptical, two-way-mirrored-glass pavilion designed by New York based artist Dan Graham, who conceived and developed the project with Haworth Tompkins Architects. The redeveloped foyer also includes a new café, space for talks, events and entertainment and improved disability access. This publication follows the development of this innovative project and includes excerpts from an interview with Dan Graham, by Mark Francis. Packed with images of the building project, architectural plans and models, the book provides a fascinating insight into a prestigious collaboration between artist and architect.
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octobre 2003, London
octobre 2003, London
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The projects collected together here are the first group of completed Masters by Research Projects in the Interior Design postgraduate program at RMIT University in Melbourne. They cover a period from 1993 to 2000.
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The projects collected together here are the first group of completed Masters by Research Projects in the Interior Design postgraduate program at RMIT University in Melbourne. They cover a period from 1993 to 2000.
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octobre 2002, Melbourne
octobre 2002, Melbourne
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INTERsection : Masters projects in interior design, 1993-2000
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The projects collected together here are the first group of completed Masters by Research Projects in the Interior Design postgraduate program at RMIT University in Melbourne. They cover a period from 1993 to 2000.
INTERsection : Masters projects in interior design, 1993-2000
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The projects collected together here are the first group of completed Masters by Research Projects in the Interior Design postgraduate program at RMIT University in Melbourne. They cover a period from 1993 to 2000.
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octobre 2002, Melbourne
octobre 2002, Melbourne
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Insideout
Insideout
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Karl Stocker, scientist and co-initiator of the project, conducted the interviews with artists of Waltz’ dance ensemble, which form the basis of Insideout. The "subjective" life-stories are confronted with "objective", scientific theses by Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Baudrillard, Ulrich Beck and Judith Butler.
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Karl Stocker, scientist and co-initiator of the project, conducted the interviews with artists of Waltz’ dance ensemble, which form the basis of Insideout. The "subjective" life-stories are confronted with "objective", scientific theses by Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Baudrillard, Ulrich Beck and Judith Butler.
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mars 2004, Wien
mars 2004, Wien
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Insideout
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Karl Stocker, scientist and co-initiator of the project, conducted the interviews with artists of Waltz’ dance ensemble, which form the basis of Insideout. The "subjective" life-stories are confronted with "objective", scientific theses by Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Baudrillard, Ulrich Beck and Judith Butler.
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Karl Stocker, scientist and co-initiator of the project, conducted the interviews with artists of Waltz’ dance ensemble, which form the basis of Insideout. The "subjective" life-stories are confronted with "objective", scientific theses by Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Baudrillard, Ulrich Beck and Judith Butler.
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mars 2004, Wien
mars 2004, Wien
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Bustamante
Bustamante
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Jean-Marc Bustamante représente la France à la 50e Biennale de Venise en 2003. Ce livre s'ouvre en 1978 par une série de paysages photographiques intitulés «Tableaux» - zones périurbaines, chantiers de construction, sites en cours d'aménagement - dont Bustamante tirera pour une part les motifs et les matériaux de son oeuvre à venir, élargie toujours plus au-delà du champ(...)
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Jean-Marc Bustamante représente la France à la 50e Biennale de Venise en 2003. Ce livre s'ouvre en 1978 par une série de paysages photographiques intitulés «Tableaux» - zones périurbaines, chantiers de construction, sites en cours d'aménagement - dont Bustamante tirera pour une part les motifs et les matériaux de son oeuvre à venir, élargie toujours plus au-delà du champ(...)
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janvier 1900, Paris
janvier 1900, Paris
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Bustamante
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Jean-Marc Bustamante représente la France à la 50e Biennale de Venise en 2003. Ce livre s'ouvre en 1978 par une série de paysages photographiques intitulés «Tableaux» - zones périurbaines, chantiers de construction, sites en cours d'aménagement - dont Bustamante tirera pour une part les motifs et les matériaux de son oeuvre à venir, élargie toujours plus au-delà du champ de la photographie. La sculpture, le dessin, l'architecture, entre autres médiums, seront ainsi explorés. Les auteurs de cet ouvrage s'attachent à analyser en détail les ramifications de cette production artistique aussi complexe que variée, caractérisée cependant par le souvenir omniprésent du modèle photographique et par un fréquent souci du rapport à la tradition picturale moderne. On verra également comment l'oeuvre de Bustamante s'inscrit en regard de celle de certains de ses prédécesseurs (les minimalistes, par exemple) ou contemporains, et comment elle puise à un fonds tout personnel d'images trouvées qui valent pour lui comme autant de sources et ressources.
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Jean-Marc Bustamante représente la France à la 50e Biennale de Venise en 2003. Ce livre s'ouvre en 1978 par une série de paysages photographiques intitulés «Tableaux» - zones périurbaines, chantiers de construction, sites en cours d'aménagement - dont Bustamante tirera pour une part les motifs et les matériaux de son oeuvre à venir, élargie toujours plus au-delà du champ de la photographie. La sculpture, le dessin, l'architecture, entre autres médiums, seront ainsi explorés. Les auteurs de cet ouvrage s'attachent à analyser en détail les ramifications de cette production artistique aussi complexe que variée, caractérisée cependant par le souvenir omniprésent du modèle photographique et par un fréquent souci du rapport à la tradition picturale moderne. On verra également comment l'oeuvre de Bustamante s'inscrit en regard de celle de certains de ses prédécesseurs (les minimalistes, par exemple) ou contemporains, et comment elle puise à un fonds tout personnel d'images trouvées qui valent pour lui comme autant de sources et ressources.
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janvier 1900, Paris
janvier 1900, Paris
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Envisageant le land art comme un contexte plutôt que comme un mouvement, cette étude prend pour sujet une mouvance qui vit, dans les années 60, les artistes sortir de l’atelier, du musée, de la galerie, pour investir des lieux autres, principalement extérieurs et souvent non-urbains. L’auteur montre ici comment les différentes formes de déplacement observées instituent(...)
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Envisageant le land art comme un contexte plutôt que comme un mouvement, cette étude prend pour sujet une mouvance qui vit, dans les années 60, les artistes sortir de l’atelier, du musée, de la galerie, pour investir des lieux autres, principalement extérieurs et souvent non-urbains. L’auteur montre ici comment les différentes formes de déplacement observées instituent(...)
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janvier 1900, Bruxelles
janvier 1900, Bruxelles
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En chemin, le land art - tome 2 : revenir
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Envisageant le land art comme un contexte plutôt que comme un mouvement, cette étude prend pour sujet une mouvance qui vit, dans les années 60, les artistes sortir de l’atelier, du musée, de la galerie, pour investir des lieux autres, principalement extérieurs et souvent non-urbains. L’auteur montre ici comment les différentes formes de déplacement observées instituent le «monde réel» en tant qu’atelier. Comment aussi, en transformant le fait de «sortir» de l’atelier en une volonté de «partir» ailleurs, le voyage constitue une modalité particulière du déplacement.
En chemin, le land art - tome 2 : revenir
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Envisageant le land art comme un contexte plutôt que comme un mouvement, cette étude prend pour sujet une mouvance qui vit, dans les années 60, les artistes sortir de l’atelier, du musée, de la galerie, pour investir des lieux autres, principalement extérieurs et souvent non-urbains. L’auteur montre ici comment les différentes formes de déplacement observées instituent le «monde réel» en tant qu’atelier. Comment aussi, en transformant le fait de «sortir» de l’atelier en une volonté de «partir» ailleurs, le voyage constitue une modalité particulière du déplacement.
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janvier 1900, Bruxelles
janvier 1900, Bruxelles
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Absence : J. Meejin Yoon
Absence : J. Meejin Yoon
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Both a book and a sculptural object, "Absence" is a memorial to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Yoon, an architect and designer who is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chose not to produce a traditional design proposal for the World Trade Center Memorial Competition. Instead she created a(...)
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Both a book and a sculptural object, "Absence" is a memorial to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Yoon, an architect and designer who is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chose not to produce a traditional design proposal for the World Trade Center Memorial Competition. Instead she created a(...)
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Absence : J. Meejin Yoon
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Both a book and a sculptural object, "Absence" is a memorial to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Yoon, an architect and designer who is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chose not to produce a traditional design proposal for the World Trade Center Memorial Competition. Instead she created a non-architectural, non site-specific space of remembrance : a portable personal memorial in the form of book. At almost two pounds, "Absence" has a considerable physical presence, but it is in every way the ghost of a presence, and it is this ghostliness that gives it its particular emotional weight. A solid white block of thick stock cardboard pages, the book’s only "text" consists of one pinhole and two identical squares die-cut into each of its one hundred and twenty pages – one for each story of the towers including the antenna mast. These removed elements lead the reader floor by floor through the missing buildings towards the final page where the footprint of the entire site of the World Trade Center is die-cut into a delicate lattice of absent structures. Of all of the proposed monuments and grand designs for the twin towers to emerge in the last two years, "Absence" is remarkable for its employment of an under-used strategy : restraint. The simplicity of Yoon’s materials and her use of repetition speak, without words, about unspeakable loss. As a scale model of a vanished architectural site, it operates on a larger cultural level by commemorating the site itself. Unpaginated.
Absence : J. Meejin Yoon
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Both a book and a sculptural object, "Absence" is a memorial to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Yoon, an architect and designer who is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chose not to produce a traditional design proposal for the World Trade Center Memorial Competition. Instead she created a non-architectural, non site-specific space of remembrance : a portable personal memorial in the form of book. At almost two pounds, "Absence" has a considerable physical presence, but it is in every way the ghost of a presence, and it is this ghostliness that gives it its particular emotional weight. A solid white block of thick stock cardboard pages, the book’s only "text" consists of one pinhole and two identical squares die-cut into each of its one hundred and twenty pages – one for each story of the towers including the antenna mast. These removed elements lead the reader floor by floor through the missing buildings towards the final page where the footprint of the entire site of the World Trade Center is die-cut into a delicate lattice of absent structures. Of all of the proposed monuments and grand designs for the twin towers to emerge in the last two years, "Absence" is remarkable for its employment of an under-used strategy : restraint. The simplicity of Yoon’s materials and her use of repetition speak, without words, about unspeakable loss. As a scale model of a vanished architectural site, it operates on a larger cultural level by commemorating the site itself. Unpaginated.
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septembre 2003, New York
septembre 2003, New York
