Phase I: painting, drawing, architecture (2016 - 2020).
This multi-stage project addressed the relationship between painting, drawing and architecture, through a series of co-curated exhibitions which examined the varied contexts where contemporary art practice interfaces with both architecture and architectural-design processes. These 4 exhibitions are: Phase I; Phase II - Imagining Architecture; Phase III - le Modulor; Phase IV : Intersections - Art / Architecture.
- Submitting institution
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Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 901
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge; Institut Supérieur des Arts de Toulouse, Toulouse; Hors-les-Murs / HLM Galerie, Marseille; Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London.
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
- URL
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https://figshare.com/s/8f64b0e1fda551850f54
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This multi-stage project addressed the relationship between painting, drawing and architecture, through a series of co-curated exhibitions which examined the varied contexts where contemporary art practice interfaces with both architecture and architectural-design processes. The Phase I project was an investigation of the language and process of visual representation.
In relation to the existing debate around art-architecture, this project established a new discourse between contemporary painting practice and range of areas including architectural archives, which had hither to not be presented within the context of a contemporary art exhibition (drawings by Pierre Joseph Esquié, produced between 1872 and 1877, exhibited in Phase II – Imagining Architecture, Toulouse, 2018). The project addressed the fundamentals of drawing and design which feed into both art and architecture, by placing painting at the center of an expanded conversation which cross-referenced a range of art practices, including installation, photography, printmaking and digital animation, whilst establishing a dynamic relation to the field of architecture.
Developed in conjunction with Réseau Peinture, a painting research network based in France, the Phase I project
evolved across four venues in four cities between 2016 and 2020. Each exhibition rigorously developed an enhanced debate built upon the previous stage, by focusing on specific areas of painting, drawing and architecture. For example, Phase III - Le Modulor (Marseilles, 2019), where Le Corbusier’s concept of ‘Le Modulor’ as a system of measurement which informed his design process for Unité de Habitation (Marseilles, 1952), also allowed for a uniquely innovative curatorial project in response.
This project developed a wider understanding of the multi-facetted relationship between art and architecture, mediated by shared interests in drawing, language, materiality or technology. At each stage, its significance was developed through a unique opportunity to build a new and innovative working relationship for artists based in France and the UK.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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