{"id":13857,"date":"2018-01-30T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T09:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isdat.fr\/programmation\/phase-ii-%e2%80%89imagining-architecture\/"},"modified":"2018-03-23T10:47:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T09:47:30","slug":"phase-ii-%e2%80%89imagining-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isdat.fr\/en\/programmation\/phase-ii-%e2%80%89imagining-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Phase II \u2014\u2009Imagining Architecture<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

opening
\non february 8th<\/sup> at 6:30pm,\u00a0in the presence of the artists<\/p>\n

opening hours
\n<\/b>Free entrance from wednesday to saturday \u2014 1pm to 7pm.\u00a0<\/b>and during isdaT opening days<\/a> march 9th<\/sup> & 10th<\/sup> from 11am to 8pm.<\/p>\n

curated by
\n<\/b>David Ryan & Benet Spencer<\/p>\n

artists
\n<\/b>Emmanuelle Castellan, David Coste, Val\u00e9rie du Ch\u00e9n\u00e9, Andrew Grassie, Laurent Proux, Tim Renshaw, David Ryan, Anna Salamon, Katharina Schmidt & Benet Spencer<\/p>\n

Phase II <\/i>\u2014 Imagining Architecture <\/i>is an international exhibition, organized by Cambridge School of Art<\/a> \u2014 Anglia Ruskin University<\/a> (Cambridge, UK) and the institut sup\u00e9rieur des arts de Toulouse (Toulouse, FR). Taking architecture-related works held in the isdaT collection as a starting point, Phase II<\/i> aims to build a dialogue around these areas, by developing a curated exhibition of contemporary painting, drawing and installation, to be presented alongside works from the existing collection.<\/p>\n

To facilitate a re-examination of work from the isdaT historical and artworks collections, from C18th<\/sup>, C19th<\/sup> and C20th<\/sup>, and in relation to the broad theme of the Phase I <\/i>project, of art-architecture relationships, selected contemporary artists have be invited to respond with their own interventions, through constructing installations or proposing a new work, which sets up a specific dialogue with older work borrowed from the archive. The selected archival works are varied; the exhibition includes painting and drawing, alongside plans and photographic documentation of architectural motifs. Key archival works include a series of drawings from 1872-1877, by the facade architect of \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts, Toulouse, Pierre Esqui\u00e9, as well as reproductions of Le Corbusier\u2019s work, selected from L\u2019Architecture vivante<\/i>, published between 1923-1933 (isdaT collection).<\/p>\n

Within each discipline, the media used and mode of production \/ representation is examined, for example: paintings of pure geometric abstraction are adjacent to a C19th<\/sup> plans of a building and a black and white photographic image of an architectural detail is juxtaposed with a contemporary work representing architectonic space.<\/p>\n

In this way, the descriptive language of linear architectural drawing can be considered in relation to the formalist dialogue found within contemporary abstraction. This also points to various questions around time, the contemporary and the archive. A topological approach to time will be in use in the exhibition, whereby works from different periods are seen as points in a field, which are allowed to touch, resonate with, and inform each other.<\/p>\n

Phase II \u2014 Imagining Architecture<\/i> is the 2nd<\/sup> stage of the project: Phase I: Painting, Drawing, Architecture<\/i>. The first exhibition in this project was: Phase I<\/i>, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, February 2016.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Phase I : Painting, Drawing, Architecture<\/i> has been developed as part of \u2018R\u00e9seau Peinture<\/a>\u2019, an international research network focusing on painting, which is a collaboration between French, UK, German and US art schools. R\u00e9seau Peinture was initiated in 2009 by the artist Olivier Gourvil, from the \u00c9cole Sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019Art et Design Grenoble-Valence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

David Ryan <\/b>is a painter, video artist, and musician. His work explores issues around sound and image, the histories of modernism, and possibilities of cross-disciplinarity. He is Reader in Fine Art at Cambridge School of Art \u2014 Anglia Ruskin University.<\/p>\n

Benet Spencer <\/b>is an artist, curator and Course Leader in BA Fine Art at Cambridge School of Art \u2014 Anglia Ruskin University. His painting focuses on architecture, which is explored through both iconography and the language of pictorial representation.<\/p>\n

archival material includes<\/b><\/p>\n