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Over the past 25 years, Antony Gormley, perhaps Britain's best-known living sculptor, has revitalized the human image in sculpture. He won the 1994 Turner Prize and has had solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel, Tate, and Hayward galleries, White Cube and The British Museum, and internationally at the Corcoran Gallery, Documenta and the Venice Biennale. His radical(...)
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Antony Gormley Blind light
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Over the past 25 years, Antony Gormley, perhaps Britain's best-known living sculptor, has revitalized the human image in sculpture. He won the 1994 Turner Prize and has had solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel, Tate, and Hayward galleries, White Cube and The British Museum, and internationally at the Corcoran Gallery, Documenta and the Venice Biennale. His radical investigations of the body as a place of memory and transformation use his own corpus as subject, tool and material. Conflating figure and ground, inside and outside, the physical and the psychological, Gormley explores complex relationships between the city, its architecture and its people. This richly illustrated catalogue is filled with new, never-before-seen sculptural works--a series of figures in light-infused webs of steel, and the monumental steel-block "Space Station," 20 feet high. Photographer Gautier Deblonde also chronicles a major new public project, "Event Horizon," which sites some 30 sculptures on buildings across central London, dramatically altering the city skyline. An in-depth interview with Gormley explores the development of his new work, as well as his relationship to the artists who have inspired him and to his contemporaries in the field of figurative sculpture.
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Eliezer (Lazar) Markovitch Lissitzky (Pochinok, près de Smolensk, Russie, 1890 – Moscou, 1941), dit El Lissitzky, est l’un des artistes les plus influents, les plus novateurs et les plus controversés du début du XXe siècle. Peintre, designer, architecte et photographe prolifique, il a travaillé avec l’avant-garde soviétique et européenne des années 1920 et participé(...)
El Lissitzky : l'expérience de la totalité
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Eliezer (Lazar) Markovitch Lissitzky (Pochinok, près de Smolensk, Russie, 1890 – Moscou, 1941), dit El Lissitzky, est l’un des artistes les plus influents, les plus novateurs et les plus controversés du début du XXe siècle. Peintre, designer, architecte et photographe prolifique, il a travaillé avec l’avant-garde soviétique et européenne des années 1920 et participé activement à l’art propagandiste stalinien des années 1930. L’une des spécificités majeures de son œuvre comme de sa vie est le « franchissement des limites » : il a rapproché les pays et les cultures, l’art et le design, l’Est et l’Ouest. Après 1917, pendant la période du communisme de guerre, il vit à l'étranger où il fait office d'ambassadeur culturel, promouvant l'art russe et les idées soviétiques à l'Ouest tout en s'informant sur la culture occidentale. Pour lui, l’art ne doit pas être considéré comme le fruit d’une expression personnelle ou comme une production d’objets, mais comme une activité sociale et collective. Avec Kazimir Malevitch, il développe un nouveau langage visuel – le suprématisme révolutionnaire – employé non seulement en peinture, mais aussi en arts graphiques et en gravure, en architecture et en théâtre, en céramique, dans les théories de l’éducation et dans les écrits révolutionnaires.
Theo Van Doesburg
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A la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, les avant-gardes européennes sont porteuses d'une volonté de changement et d'un espoir d'avenir meilleur. Plus que tout autre, Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) participe à cet effort de reconstruction en élargissant l'esthétique néo-plastique de Piet Mondrian à toutes les disciplines : peinture, sculpture, architecture et arts(...)
Theo Van Doesburg
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A la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, les avant-gardes européennes sont porteuses d'une volonté de changement et d'un espoir d'avenir meilleur. Plus que tout autre, Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) participe à cet effort de reconstruction en élargissant l'esthétique néo-plastique de Piet Mondrian à toutes les disciplines : peinture, sculpture, architecture et arts appliqués. Theo van Doesburg propose une véritable révolution, qui vise à transformer le monde de chaque individu, à créer une nouvelle expression de l'art, qui soit en interaction avec la complexité de la vie et avec l'évolution des sciences et des techniques. Sa démarche en constante évolution convoque des mouvances a priori incompatibles comme le dadaïsme et le néoplasticisme et tend à promouvoir l'innovation, ce qu'atteste son évolution vers l'élémentarisme, puis vers l'Art Concret. Pour défendre son projet à un niveau international, Van Doesburg, également fondateur du mouvement et de la revue De Stijl, a su fédérer tous les artistes qui comptaient. Il est reconnu autant pour ses réalisations plastiques que pour sa façon d'accomplir un idéal philosophique, artistique et collectif. La notoriété internationale de nombreux artistes, dont celle de Mondrian, en bénéficiera largement.
Aernout Mik
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Dutch artist Aernout Mik's moving-image installations meld filmmaking, sculpture and architecture into experiences that are at once compelling and unsettling, irrational yet plausible. The artist designs and constructs architectural spaces that hold his moving images, making the viewer's physical relationship to the piece a critical component of the overall experience. By(...)
Aernout Mik
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Dutch artist Aernout Mik's moving-image installations meld filmmaking, sculpture and architecture into experiences that are at once compelling and unsettling, irrational yet plausible. The artist designs and constructs architectural spaces that hold his moving images, making the viewer's physical relationship to the piece a critical component of the overall experience. By interrogating the most basic ideas of narrative and reality and rejecting classical cinematic ideals, Mik creates works that are rich in allusion but subversive of codes. Published to accompany the artist's first U.S. retrospective, this volume is a vivid exploration of Mik's work and process. Laurence Kardish, MoMA's Senior Curator in the Department of Film, situates Mik within the history of documentary and nonnarrative cinema, while Michael Taussig, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, investigates the ways in which the artist's work changes the way we see reality while simultaneously reinforcing the norms of visual culture. Abundantly illustrated with stills and the artist's own drawings, the book also features detailed descriptions of the installations, an exhibition history and a bibliography, making it the most comprehensive volume on the artist available in English.
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Architectones, a monumental undertaking of seven exhibitions installed across three continents over a two year period, unites Veilhan's diverse interests in modernity, its histories of technology, and its cult of genius figures. Collectively titled after Kazimir Malevich's volumetric-spatial models, the art and architectural works partake in the revolutionary idealism of(...)
Xavier Veilhan: Architectones, art in the living environment
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Architectones, a monumental undertaking of seven exhibitions installed across three continents over a two year period, unites Veilhan's diverse interests in modernity, its histories of technology, and its cult of genius figures. Collectively titled after Kazimir Malevich's volumetric-spatial models, the art and architectural works partake in the revolutionary idealism of a period in which it was possible to imagine transforming society from the ground up by way of a new form of building. Between 2012 and 2014, Veilhan used music, light, and sculpture to activate Richard Neutra's VDL Research House in Silver Lake, Pierre Koenig's Case Study House No. 21 in the Hollywood Hills, and buildings designed by Le Corbusier and Mies Van Der Rohe, among others. The histories and legacies of the architects themselves played a prominent role in these installations, with figural sculptures and die-cut silhouettes of the looming personalities of the architects populating his installations. Architectones: Art in the Living Environment tells both a story of present and past, archiving exhibition photography as well as anecdotal and historical documents of many of the greatest domestic and private spaces of modern architecture.
Log 59
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To mark Log’s 20 years of observing architecture and the contemporary city, former guest editors and current editorial protagonists were invited to interview someone whose work resonates with their current thinking or concerns, or even with what keeps them up at night. The conversations they initiated range from designing with AI to AI’s possible future consciousness;(...)
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To mark Log’s 20 years of observing architecture and the contemporary city, former guest editors and current editorial protagonists were invited to interview someone whose work resonates with their current thinking or concerns, or even with what keeps them up at night. The conversations they initiated range from designing with AI to AI’s possible future consciousness; from natural French wine to Indigenous Mexican textiles; from building architecture to theorizing architecture; from corruption in the building industry to untold histories. Literary critic Caroline Levine calls for activism; urbanist Milton S.F. Curry says it’s a time for manifestos; and artist Ursula Biemann brings our relationship to a changing Earth System into sharper view.
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Metamorfosi 05: Bruno Zevi
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Bruno Zevi played a crucial role in the understanding and propagation of contemporary architecture. On the centenary of his birth - in an ideal partnership with the initiatives the “Bruno Zevi Foundation” is promoting both in Italy and abroad - “Metamorfosi, Q.d.A.” devotes this issue to some aspects of his cultural and educational battle. Its goal is to build a bridge(...)
Metamorfosi 05: Bruno Zevi
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Bruno Zevi played a crucial role in the understanding and propagation of contemporary architecture. On the centenary of his birth - in an ideal partnership with the initiatives the “Bruno Zevi Foundation” is promoting both in Italy and abroad - “Metamorfosi, Q.d.A.” devotes this issue to some aspects of his cultural and educational battle. Its goal is to build a bridge between what the next generations learnt from him, all while following different paths, and what still remains alive and useful of his insights for a different way of practicing architecture inspired by social issues and in the pursuit of an evolving link between architecture, city and landscape.
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This book aims to illustratehow rich and articulated are the ideas that, over the centuries, have generated the contemporary concept of Eco-Village and Eco-Living. The author, an expert on environmental issues and history of architecture, through an extensive research lasting more than ten years, intends to decribe the philosophical, cultural, historical and theoretical(...)
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Being light on the earth: Eco-village policy and practice for a sustainable world
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This book aims to illustratehow rich and articulated are the ideas that, over the centuries, have generated the contemporary concept of Eco-Village and Eco-Living. The author, an expert on environmental issues and history of architecture, through an extensive research lasting more than ten years, intends to decribe the philosophical, cultural, historical and theoretical aspects of this complex topic. The book is split in thwo volumes. The first one describes the historical and conceptual aspects of the contemporary Eco-Villages, supported by an extensive bibliography and acurate examples. The second is focusing more on the technical aspects, illustrating the most important Eco-Villages in the world.
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''A Set of Actual Tracks'' brings a contemporary critical lens to the work of Reyner Banham, one of the most prescient architectural and design critics of the 20th century. Sixteen of the acerbic historian’s essays and book chapters have been selected by the book’s contributors, ranging from classics such as “The Great Gizmo” to lesser-known texts, such as “The Wall,” an(...)
Reyner Banham: A set of actual tracks
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''A Set of Actual Tracks'' brings a contemporary critical lens to the work of Reyner Banham, one of the most prescient architectural and design critics of the 20th century. Sixteen of the acerbic historian’s essays and book chapters have been selected by the book’s contributors, ranging from classics such as “The Great Gizmo” to lesser-known texts, such as “The Wall,” an intimate confession he penned at the hospital shortly before his death. Each is accompanied by a contemporary response that contextualises Banham’s text, drawing out reflections on what the critic’s work means today.
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Urban China in transition
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Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major cities. It highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations. Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China(...)
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Urban China in transition
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Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major cities. It highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations. Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropology. John R. Logan is the founder of the Urban China Research Network, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Urban Affairs and City and Community. He was chosen Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY, as well as Director of the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research. In April 2003 he was selected by American Demographics magazine as one of five social demographers whose work has most influenced his field in the last 25 years.