Catégorie: New productions

(*1955, FR) Pyramid’os, Le Buisson, 2020 Bronze 60 × 70 × 70 cm The human body, its organs and its limbs constitute a lexical repertoire on which many tongues have drawn has drawn to form many picturesque expressions. From Leonardo da Vinci to Corbusier, the human body has also served as a reference, as a measure. It can be … Continued

(*1984, US) The Rising and Setting of the Sun, 2020 Wood, steel, plexiglas, acrylic paint, resin, canvas 700 × 50 × 500 cm Through doubling and reflection, the site-specific work of Matthew Lutz-Kinoy reveals a scene  within a scene, a backdrop inside the landscape of the park. The triptych The Rising and Setting of the Sun is contained within a narrative … Continued

(*1945, US) Grassroots Never too much, hardly enough  Frederick Law Olmsted The expression, sculpture garden less seems a typology than opens subsets of abstract space that intersect members of a patrimony tethered to artifices of guarded pleasures. Protected and preserved, they serve to define geopolitical boundaries. So, why is it that we see so many … Continued

*1980, UK Public Sculpture II, 2020 To keep an area of a private space open and accessible 24 hours a day. In this case, Parc La Grange, Geneva (standard opening hours: June to August; September to October, 7 am–9pm. Private Sculpture, 2020 To keep an area of a public space closed and inaccessible 24 hours a … Continued

(*1933, *1931, CH) Enigma, 2020 Alucobond reflect, aluminum 340 × 425 × 205 cm Since starting their collaboration in 1967, this Swiss duo has never stopped calling into question the aesthetic conventions of design and architecture. Their new production displays the sense of humor characteristic of their work, and looks like a personal interpretation of the Stonehenge monoliths. Thanks … Continued

(1923-2020, FR) Le Musée sans bâtiment, c. 2004-2020 Steel, various materials Variable dimensions Since the 1950s, as a practicing architect and urbanist, Yona Friedman succeeded in reconciling major social and architectural principles, thus valorizing the role of the architect in the community. He emphasized the centrality of processes and users by according less importance to … Continued

(*1976, FR | *1975, FR) Flipper, 2020 67 × 110 × 50 cm Nudes X, 2020 130 × 225 × 72 cm Nudes XI, 2020 123 × 90 × 194 cm Rosa Aurora Marble The installation by Dewar & Gicquel consists of a series of sculptures that echoes the park, its proximity to the lake, and its visitors. A dialogue is established among a pair of legs, a shell, … Continued

(*1988, FR) Naïve Coercion, 2020 Stainless steel, enamel, marble powder 170 × 50 × 50 cm Parks and gardens are often populated by the busts of figures, some still famous, others forgotten. Morgan Courtois’ sculpture, with its refined, sustained and suggestive eroticism, represents a contracted body evocative of falling, tension and ecstasy. Existing somewhere between voluptuous and violent, the sculpture’s flesh … Continued

(*1991, CH) Mobilier/Documentaire #3, 2020 Stainless steel, electrical and lighting gear, Plexiglas, various materials 110 × 130 cm each element The Geneva artist situates his work under the white pavilion, a former station for miniature trains built around 1912. Park visitors use it today as a refuge in rainy weather. Three pieces have been designed for the park, … Continued

(*1938, IT) Fontana Albero, 1994-2020 Bronze, aluminum, electric pump 150 × 280 × 270 cm A pioneer of Italian radical architecture, Andrea Branzi is a designer, the founder of the collective Archizoom Associati and a co-founder of the Memphis Group. His “tree fountain” presented here, Fontana Albero, is an example of his longstanding inquiry into the relationships between the … Continued