Rayon Photographes
James Casebere, after scale model

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Format : Broché
Nb de pages : 62 pages
Poids : 236 g
Dimensions : 17cm X 24cm
ISBN : 978-94-6161-310-3
EAN : 9789461613103

James Casebere, after scale model


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Broché 62 pages
foreword Etienne Davignon, Paul Dujardin, Sophie Lauwers
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For forty years already the American artist James Casebere has been making models for the sole purpose of photographing them. His work is based on a thorough knowledge of architecture, art history and film. In his pictures he brings up the broader social context and goes in search of the historical and ideological structures thereof. Initially fascinated by ordinary interiors and average American architecture, he later directed his attention to buildings that exude power and control, prison structures, inundated interiors, and world heritage sites. In his most recent work he returns to the everyday by depicting suburban environments.

The exhibition at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels features examples of domestic spaces as well as monumental structures.

His work enters into a dialogue with the particular architecture of the building designed by Victor Horta.

Biographie

Wouter Davidts lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. He is Adjunct-Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University (UGent), and teaches at Sint Lucas School of Arts and in the Drama Department of the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp. He was awarded the Eduardo Chillida Professorship 2015 at the Art History Institute of Goethe University in Frankfurt.
He is the author of Bouwen voor de kunst ? (AandS/books, 2006) and Triple Bound (Valiz, 2016), and has published widely on the museum, contemporary art and architecture. He is the editor of The Fall of the Studio : Artists at Work (Valiz, 2009 ; with Kim Paice), Crack : Koen van den Broek, Painting (Valiz, 2010), and Luc Deleu - T.O.P. office : Orban Space (Valiz, 2012 ; with Guy Châtel and Stefaan Vervoort).
He is the curator of Beginners and Begetters at Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp (2007), Abstract USA 1958-1968. In the Galleries at the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede (2010), and Orban Space : Luc Deleu - T.O.P. office at Stroom Den Haag and Extra City, Antwerp (2013 ; with Stefaan Vervoort). Most recently he curated The Corner Show (Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, 2015 ; with Philip Metten and Mihnea Mircan).

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