With a selection of artworks by:
Jennifer ALLORA & Guillermo CALZADILLA / Joseph BEUYS / James BROWN / Alan CHARLTON / Toshikatsu ENDO / Hans HARTUNG / Nakashima HARUMI / Alex KATZ / André LANSKOY / Georges MATHIEU / Giuseppe PENONE / Serge POLIAKOFF / Sally-Ann ROWLAND / Luzia SIMONS / Patrick TOSANI / Cy TWOMBLY / Victor VASARELY / Joana VASCONCELOS
"Art must be born from the material and spirituality must borrow the language of the material".
Jean Dubuffet
This exhibition brings together a selection of contemporary and post-War works by artists from a variety of cultures and horizons; disparate objects chosen as supports to consider the notion of architecture in the visual arts. Or more precisely chosen as supports in detecting lines of relevance between the concepts of space, inhabiting, material; of thought and material.
Architecture is not limited to producing works that satisfy both the material needs of man and his aesthetic aspirations. It is also the bearer of broader questions about the philosophical implications of the inhabited. A problem that often engages artists.
There is no end to the list of all that architecture and the visual arts owe to their materials: structural properties, textures, forms, symbolic scope... But beyond their multiple lessons, materials, in their confrontation with aesthetic, functional, social and political preoccupations refer to one of the most fundamental characteristics of both architecture and the visual arts. Because beyond the various forms that these two disciplines have been able to take from one era and one society to another, they have constantly defined themselves within a certain tension between thought and material.
And there can be no architecture and visual art without any organizing thoughts about the more or less extended ramifications. In fact, the architect and the artist, in their practise and creations, prove to be people with many hats. These two fields simultaneously refer to the constraints and wealth of material, as well as the irreducibility of the sensation to the order of reasons.
