Opening 29/01 - 29/01 - 13/06, 2020
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Yona Friedman
Sculpting the Void
Une proposition de Yona Friedman avec Le Fonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman, curated by Maurizio Bortolotti
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
sculpting the void, 2020Exhibition view at Francesca Minini, Milan
Ph. Alessandro Zambianchi
I was often trying to define architecture as sculpting the void. Indeed, the material that makes architecture is penetrable empty space. You can appreciate it from inside.
But emptiness in itself is not visible. Something must contain it. Architectural space is contained generally within a box. Architects’ work is most often to conceive that box.
Sculpting space can be achieved also by creating negative space, i.e. space around objects, that means space like a “mold” of those objects. That work also falls into the domain of architecture.
Thus technique of architects produces the box as hardware, but architecture as art is the software, space within and around the box. The box itself is simply a special kind of ordinary sculpture, eventually enhanced through painting, for example murals.
An exhibition of any kind refers to both techniques of the architect in supplement to the topic of the exhibition: the space. We call it installation, in common language.
Yona Friedman
I was often trying to define architecture as sculpting the void. Indeed, the material that makes architecture is penetrable empty space. You can appreciate it from inside.
But emptiness in itself is not visible. Something must contain it. Architectural space is contained generally within a box. Architects’ work is most often to conceive that box.
Sculpting space can be achieved also by creating negative space, i.e. space around objects, that means space like a “mold” of those objects. That work also falls into the domain of architecture.
Thus technique of architects produces the box as hardware, but architecture as art is the software, space within and around the box. The box itself is simply a special kind of ordinary sculpture, eventually enhanced through painting, for example murals.
An exhibition of any kind refers to both techniques of the architect in supplement to the topic of the exhibition: the space. We call it installation, in common language.
Yona Friedman
L’Arbre au Soleil et la Lune au Jungle d’Amazonas (Les fleurs), 2019Mixed media
variable dimensionsMise en espace Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Fonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
Edition 1/3 + 1 AP
L’Arbre au Soleil et la Lune au Jungle d’Amazonas (Nature), 2019Mixed media, 3 drawings
120×290 cm
variable dimensions
Mise en espace Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Fonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
L’Arbre au Soleil et la Lune au Jungle d’Amazonas (L’eau), 2019Mixed media, 3 drawings
variable dimensionsMise en espace Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Fonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
Edition 1/3 + 1 AP
L’Arbre au Soleil et la Lune au Jungle d’Amazonas (Animaux), 2019Mixed media, 4 drawings
variable dimensionsMise en espace Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Fonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
Edition 1/3 + 1 AP
L’Arbre au Soleil et la Lune au Jungle d’Amazonas (La cité), 2019Mixed media, 3 drawings
variable dimensionsMise en espace Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Fonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
Edition 1/3 + 1 AP
L’Arbre au Soleil et la Lune au Jungle d’Amazonas (Les voyages), 2019Mixed media, 2 drawings
variable dimensionsMise en espace Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Fonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
Edition 1/3 + 1 AP
L’Arbre au Soleil et la Lune au Jungle d’Amazonas (Construire), 2019Mixed media, 3 drawings
variable dimensionsMise en espace Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Fonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
Edition 1/3 + 1 AP
Maquette d’étude pour une iconostase. 1 copie Lambda de Biosphère. The Global Infrastrcture slideshow. 3 photos de Pavillon de Shenzhen, 2017. Photos de 33, Boulevard Garibaldi, Paris, Septembre 2009, J. B. Decavèle, 2019Mixed media
scale 1:20
variable dimensionsFonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
Space Chain, variation 18, maquette d’étude pour certains détails, 2017Mixed media
Scale 1:500Variable dimensionsFonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
Edition unique
Space Chain, variation 18, maquette d’étude pour certains détails, 2017Mixed media
Scale 1:500Variable dimensionsFonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
Edition unique
Staircase Towers, étude pour Caracas, 2016Mixed media
Scale 1:100 Variable dimentionsFonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
Staircase Towers, étude pour Caracas, 2016Mixed media
Scale 1:100 Variable dimentionsFonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
Maquette d’étude pour Le Pavillon d’été de la Serpentine Galleries. 1 copie Lambda de A summer house at the Serpentine Gallery slideshow. 1 copie d’un photomontage d’étude. 2 photos de J. B. Decavèle, 2016Mixed media
scale 1:20variable dimensionsFonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
Maquette d’étude pour Le Pavillon d’été de la Serpentine Galleries. 1 copie Lambda de A summer house at the Serpentine Gallery slideshow. 1 copie d’un photomontage d’étude. 2 photos de J. B. Decavèle, 2016Mixed media
scale 1:20variable dimensionsFonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
La Manifestation des Licornes (L’argent), 2009Mixed media
variable dimensionsFonds de Dotation Denise et Yona FriedmanEdition unique
La Manifestation des Licornes (Mètropole Europe), 2009Mixed media
variable dimensionsFonds de Dotation Denise et Yona Friedman
Edition unique
