Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux: Opus 58 - Hardcover

Sowa, Axel

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ISBN 10: 3932565584 ISBN 13: 9783932565588

Verlag: Edition Axel Menges, 2006

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60pages. in4. Cartonné jaquette.

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Text in French and English. Mouans-Sartoux, a small community near Cannes, has become a Mecca for concrete art. Since 1990 two collectors from Switzerland, Sybil Albers and the artist Gottfried Honegger, have been working to establish the Espace de lArt Concret (EAC). Neither a museum nor a municipal gallery, this institution is located in the Chateau de Mouans and in two new buildings in its large park. The first of the two new buildings was a studio designed by Marc Barani from Nice for children who come here to paint and to develop their aesthetic senses. Barani began work in 1990 with the extension to the cemetery of Saint Pancrace in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. The way he located the cemetery in the local landscape and his use of original vegetable and mineral materials immediately brought him to international notice. In 2000 Albers and Honegger decided to donate their collections to the French state, on the understanding that it would finance a building to house the nearly 500 works of art. A competition was launched and was won by the Zurich architects Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer. The building, which opened its doors in 2004, stands on a steeply sloping wooded terrain. As one enters the park, one sees its yellowish-green hues through the branches of the trees. The monochrome colour unifies the five levels of the building that give no clue as to what it contains. While the outside of the building looks artificial, independent, sculptural, its interior is set up in accordance with Honeggers special instructions. He wanted the building that was to house his collection to be distinct from the official and sterile museums that are often laid out on the gallery model, passageways for contemplation, internal streets with overhead lighting. Honegger prefers an interior that is like a private home rather than a public institution. The domestic framework of the rooms must reflect a principle dear to the heart of the donors: that the works are to be lived with. Honegger takes an overall view of our material environment and emphasises that for him the distinction between fine arts and applied arts has no meaning, because an unapplied art would have no purpose and would be bound to be insignificant and disappear.

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Axel Sowa was born in 1966. He studied Architecture in Berlin and Paris between 1987 and 1993. A scholarship awarded by the Carl-Duisberg-Stiftung (Cologne) sent him to Kyoto, Japan, to work in the studio of Gen-Plan from 1996 to 1997. He was editor of the journal L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui in Paris between 2000 and 2007 and has been Professor of Theory of Architecture at the RWTH Aachen University since 2007.

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• Verlag: Edition Axel Menges
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 3932565584
• ISBN 13: 9783932565588
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 60