Présente les productions des plus importants designers scandinaves : Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, Verner Panton, mais aussi le travail de jeunes designers tels que Björn Dahlström, Snowcrash. Il s'agit de proposer un aperçu du design scandinave, depuis 1900 jusqu'à aujourd'hui, à travers des créations utilitaires, décoratives et à usage industriel.

“Aglaia Konrad photographs metropolises such as Tokyo, Sao Paolo, Cairo, Paris en Mexico City. She then manipulates these images using techniques including collage and repeating, mirroring and enlarging them. In her two-and three-dimensional installations she not only plays with the phenomena and the images of the city but also with questions concerning ambiguity, identity and the perceptions of the viewer. Elasticity is an ambitious and substantial tome that offers an insight into the characteristics and images of the metropolis in a stratified way. In an photographic essay spanning over 200 pages she uses her personal photographic archive to ’install’ her work in the book in a new sequence and rhythm.” (Argos) “Aglaia Konrad photographs metropolises such as Tokyo, São Paolo, Cairo, Paris and Mexico City. She then manipulates these images using techniques including collage and repeating, mirroring and enlarging them. In her two- and three-dimensional installations she not only plays with the phenomena and the images of the city but also toys with questions concerning ambiguity, identity and the perceptions of the viewer. Elasticity is an ambitious and substantial tome that offers an insight into the characteristics and images of the metropolis in a stratified way. Konrad has a highly individual way of manipulating the images, revealing a fascinating topography of urban fabrics, facades, infrastructure, architectural forms and surfaces. In a photographic essay spanning 240 pages she uses her personal photographic archive to ’install’ her work in the book in a new sequence and rhythm. The book also offers a reflection on the work in the form of essays, by Daniel Kurjakovic (freelance curator, art critic and art historian), Antonio Guzman (director of the l’Aquarium/Art et Recherche exhibition space/art centre in Valenciennes) and Eran Schaerf (artist) respectively. Konrad’s images are a stimulus for a diversity of disciplines: art, photography, urbanism, architecture and urban sociology. Her work is the subject of increasing interest, national and internationally, and has featured in solo and group exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad (including Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam 1992; The National institute for Photography in the Netherlands, Rotterdam 1994; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1995; Documenta X, Kassel 1997; Shanghai Biennale, 2000; Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp 2000; Architektur Zentrum Wien, Vienna 2001).” (Source: NAi)

A travers une série de photographies de villes comme Le Caire ou Alexandrie, Aglaia Konrad s'intéresse à l'application des principes “moderniste” au développement de l'architecture en milieu désertique, et aux dialogues improbables qui apparaissent entre modèles importés et vernaculaires, constructions et environnements naturels, désert et habitations, modernité et tradition. Aglaia Konrad focuses a direct gaze on programmed city extensions of Cairo such as 10th of Ramadan City, 15th of May City, Dreamland etc. This is not classic architectural or documentary photography: her way of seeing things is unadorned and draws our attention straight to the history of the real setting. The photographs show the application of “modernist” principles to architectual development in desert landscapes. They spotlight an improbable dialogue between imported models and vernacular elements, constructions and sites, desert and communities, modernity and tradition. (éd.)

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