ARTchitecture
from 05 JUL 2014 to 11 JAN 2015
The relationships between art and architecture can be the object of infinite declensions: the experiments carried out by Soviet constructivists and suprematists and, later on, by minimalist and conceptual artists, are but two examples of the constant transfusions between the two disciplines that have shaped twentieth-century art. ‘ARTchitecture’ features some of the ways of approaching this theme. Through collage, photomontage, photographs, films, drawings, plans, maps, objects and sound pieces, the artists in this exhibition propose a series of utopian projects that are particularly critical of current architectural and urban planning practices.
The exhibition brings together works from the Collections of Artists’ Books and Publications of the Serralves Foundation and the Bremen Museum and is articulated around the work of Belgian Luc Deleu and American Peter Downsbrough, both of whom authored a body of visual work profoundly anchored in their academic architectural training and subsequent studio practice. ‘ARTchitecture’ features works by these artists - more specifically, the recordings of their intervention in the public space - as well as of others who have contributed to a critical reflection on the contaminations between art, architecture and urban planning and who have alerted us to the grandeur and misery of the architectural world that surrounds us: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Daniel Buren, Concha Jerez, Sol LeWitt, Edmund Kuppel, Gordon Matta-Clark, Elisabeth Neudörfl, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Jessica Stockholder and Antonio Vigo, among others.
Curator: Guy Schraenen
Some loans from ASPC/Centre for Artists' Publications, Weserburg, Bremen.
Related Activities GUIDED VISITS
20 AUG (WED), 17h30, LibraryGuided visit to the exhibition by Sónia Oliveira (Head of the Serralves Library)More information here GUIDED TOURS BY THE SERRALVES MUSEUM EDUCATION STAFF
06 JUL (SUN), 12h00–13h00, LibraryBy Inês Caetano
26 OCT (SUN), 12h00–13h00, LibraryBy Rita Martins
09 NOV (SUN), 12h00–13h00, LibraryBy Inês Caetano
The exhibition brings together works from the Collections of Artists’ Books and Publications of the Serralves Foundation and the Bremen Museum and is articulated around the work of Belgian Luc Deleu and American Peter Downsbrough, both of whom authored a body of visual work profoundly anchored in their academic architectural training and subsequent studio practice. ‘ARTchitecture’ features works by these artists - more specifically, the recordings of their intervention in the public space - as well as of others who have contributed to a critical reflection on the contaminations between art, architecture and urban planning and who have alerted us to the grandeur and misery of the architectural world that surrounds us: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Daniel Buren, Concha Jerez, Sol LeWitt, Edmund Kuppel, Gordon Matta-Clark, Elisabeth Neudörfl, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Jessica Stockholder and Antonio Vigo, among others.
Curator: Guy Schraenen
Some loans from ASPC/Centre for Artists' Publications, Weserburg, Bremen.
Related Activities GUIDED VISITS
20 AUG (WED), 17h30, LibraryGuided visit to the exhibition by Sónia Oliveira (Head of the Serralves Library)More information here GUIDED TOURS BY THE SERRALVES MUSEUM EDUCATION STAFF
06 JUL (SUN), 12h00–13h00, LibraryBy Inês Caetano
26 OCT (SUN), 12h00–13h00, LibraryBy Rita Martins
09 NOV (SUN), 12h00–13h00, LibraryBy Inês Caetano
