Agenda
Carlo Scarpa's Tomba Brion: Photographs by Guido Guidi, 1997 – 2007
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
A welcome revisit to a dual masterpiece, this exhibition is dedicated to Italian photographer Guido Guidi’s decade-spanning visual essay of Carlo Scarpa’s Tomba Brion in Italy. Capturing Scarpa’s notions of time, space and light in the Brion family mausoleum, Guidi was a long-time admirer of Scarpa’s work and thought. Here his 54 colour photographs reveal the detailed beauty of the funerary complex, echoing the poetic qualities of his subject and its ability shift perspective depending on the time of day, season and the observer’s viewpoint.
The New Silk Roads
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain
This show features the ongoing urban research project of the urbanist, theorist and activist Kyong Park, carried out through different journeys along the intricate route between Istanbul and Tokyo. Examining the complex conditions and relations shaping the cultural, social and political territories throughout the Asian continent, Eurasia and the Middle East, this is what Park describes as The New Silk Roads. So far Park has carried out three expeditions, and he and his team of collaborators have visited and researched eight of the 20 countries that will involve the project, using the urban research method Park calls ‘nomadic practice’.
The New Monumentality
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, United Kingdom
This exhibition explores the attraction of modern post-war buildings for three European artists born in the heyday of monumental architecture, as typified by London’s Barbican Centre. Respectively based in Dublin, Paris and Vienna, Gerard Byrne, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Dorit Margreiter all use film and script to investigate and animate the architecture of the 1960s and this project brings them together for the first time. After World War II, architects looked to the abstract language of sculpture as a way of investing their buildings with greater power and significance. These forward-thinking forms, which still seem modern today, frame the exhibition.
Vegetal City
Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, Belgium
What will our future look like? This exhibition features the visions of Belgian architect Luc Schuiten, who considers that we have perhaps too quickly forgotten that we are, first of all, biological beings inhabiting a planet that is itself alive. A coherent and poetical world is gradually built, drawn from the imagery of different futurist perspectives, unfolding in time. The original proposals present a positive vision of the future, reflected through the creation of a new relationship between human beings and their natural environment. These original ways of depicting a future drawing its inspiration from multiple ecosystems are underpinned by the close relationship that the artist shares with the biologists of the association Biomimicry Europa.
The Cook, The Farmer, His Wife And Their Neighbour
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Combining visual art and social architecture to redefine the village green, this collaborative project in the Nieuw West neighbourhood of Amsterdam, has been initiated by the Stedelijk Museum and was designed and organised by Marjetica Potrand Wilde Westen, a group of architects, artists, designers and cultural producers. The project consists of a community vegetable garden and kitchen for use by neighbourhood residents, both of which it is hoped will remain in place after the official end of the programme. The organisers aim was to start a process of transformation for the neighbourhood: providing the people who live in the area with a way to redefine their relationship to public space and the public sphere.