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From: e-Flux <[email protected]>
Subject: MNAC & CNAP present Architectures/Dessins/Utopies
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, February 11, 2011, 7:40 AM
February 11, 2011
MNAC Bucharest / CNAP Paris
Vito Acconci, "Projet de piste de skate board"/ Project
for the skateboard track," 1999.
Colour pencil, black marker, silver marker, collage, photocopy, colour print.*
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ARCHITECTURES/DESSINS/UTOPIES
works from the Centre National Des Arts Plastiques, Paris
24 January–20 April 2011
MNAC Bucharest
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Vito ACCONCI // Elisabeth
BALLET // Yves BÉLORGEY // Etienne BOSSUT // Rosemarie CASTORO // Philippe
COGNÉE // Enzo
CUCCHI // Horia DAMIAN // Richard DEACON // Nathalie ELEMENTO // Yona FRIEDMAN
// GAROUSTE & BONETTI // Dan GRAHAM //
Yong Ping HUANG // Alain JOSSEAU // Jean-Paul JUNGMANN // Ilya KABAKOV //
Tadashi KAWAMATA // KCHO // Per KIRKEBY // Jan
KOPP // P.Nicolas LEDOUX // Sol LeWITT // Markus LÜPERTZ // Najia MÉHADJI //
Didier MENCOBONI // Tania MOURAUD // Matt
MULLICAN // Roman ONDÁK // Dennis OPPENHEIM // Lucy ORTA // Yazid OULAB //
Claude PARENT & François LETAILLIEUR //
Giuseppe PENONE // Gaetano PESCE // Françoise QUARDON // Evariste RICHER //
Georges ROUSSE // Yvan SALOMONE // Fred
SANDBACK // Richard SERRA // Veit STRATMANN // Tatiana TROUVÉ // Tamas ZANKO //
curator
Ruxandra Balaci
MNAC Artistic Director
coorganizer
Claude Allemand-Cosneau
Director of the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain/CNAP
The Architectures/Dessins/Utopies exhibition presents drawings (collages, drawn
interventions) pertaining to
architecture by visual artists and drawings by architects that go beyond
architecture stricto sensu. It will be
on display at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest from January to
April 2011 and relies on a selection of
works, rarely or never shown before, from the prestigious French state
collection, the Fonds National d'Art
Contemporain/Centre National des Arts Plastiques.
Architecture is envisaged as a central theme, a protagonist, resembling
concrete or imaginary iconography in the
artistic process of many contemporary artists. Artists are using architecture
as a framework: scenographical,
philosophical, socio-anthropological and symbolic, to point out contradictions
of contemporary life, to focus on
psychological and behavioural knowledge, on urban culture and civilization with
all the vast and complex issues of
today's megacities. Architecture is perceived and metonymically acts as an
evolving parameter of development or, on the
contrary, as a sensor for alienation, high anxiety caused by globalisation,
excessive economic growth, recession, social
disparity and political conflicts. It connects, on the one hand, to the
de-humanisation of inhabitable spaces, to the
proliferation of surveillance, of restrictive/oppressive enclosures, of
inclusion/seclusion (through physical, mental or
symbolic barriers). But on the other hand, to the potential of making living
spaces more harmonious and ethically
bearable, to transform the natural landscape, to create openings and enrich
spaces, gaining utopian dimensions,
becoming, ultimately, a metaphor for human life.
Drawing turns out to be a concrete investigative tool to structure factual
reality and to lead towards real
architectural propositions. But also a playful tool for shaping the imaginary
and the utopian, suggesting a fictional
order where weightlessness, newly created metaphysical armony, the expansion of
space and the abolition of time are
possible.
Drawing allows both elaboration and improvisation. As if through the sketch—in
the cognitive visual process—a kind
of a Zen like state of "awaking consciousness" is maintained.
The exhibition is accompanied by the no. 8 issue of Cahiers de la Creation
Contemporaine / CNAP / Paris.
Project realised with the support of : Ministere Francais de la Culture et
Communication,
Institut Francais Paris
MNAC partner : BRD Groupe Societe Generale
Sponsors: ING Bank, Chocolat, Cramele Rotenberg
Media partners: Igloo, Zeppelin, 24 Fun, Radio France Internationale,
feeder.ro, Cocor MediaChannel
*Image above:
© Vito Acconci /CNAP.
Photo by Y. Chenot, Paris.
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