Commaissaire: Christian Boltanski, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Chiara Parisi,
31 mai et 21 juin 2018, Villa Médicis,R
220 reflecting surfaces are collectively organized and individually adjusted to project 220 sunsets into the north-east oriented Loggia of the Villa Medici. The 31st of May, 220 mirrors shifted the Cosmos toward the Villa, as people witnessed the first ever sunset this space had known for 430 years.
The installation was conceived alongside a study on our cultural relationship to energy, as an allusion to the infrastructural landscape emerging in the Mediterranean’s backcountry. It stood as a phenomenological experiment of the contemporary energetic city which territory extends far from its formal limits. As we were focusing on the production of architecture in this landscape, and on the perspectives we could bring to it, we followed two intuitional paths for 500 soli’s conception:
Commissaire : Cecile Debray, Federico Nicolao, Octobre 2018, Marseille
In October 2017 Alessandra et Odysseas extract 4 tons of earth from the gardens of Villa Medici. In parallel, from Septembre 2017 to February 2018 they regularly escape from Rome to survey the Agro Pontino, the flat countryside 60 km south of Rome.
The installation offers a cross reading of this two ecologies:
The gardens of Villa Medicis (left) / Agro Pontino, Lazio countryside (right)
In October 2017 Alessandra et Odysseas extract 4 tons of earth from the gardens of Villa Medici. In parallel, from Septembre 2017 to February 2018 they regularly escape from Rome to survey the Agro Pontino, the flat countryside 60 km south of Rome.
The installation offers a cross reading of this two ecologies:
The gardens of Villa Medicis (left) / Agro Pontino, Lazio countryside (right)
4'01'' 4'oo''
The Parnassus is the highest fountain of Rome. In the footsteps of the old projects, the 1930's
improvements , (of lands by the drains and of
men by medicine), redefines architecture by its
size, scales, and scope of actions.
4'07'' 4'o7''
An incredible chimera. It is of stone and earth Engineers refine measurements and
and covers ruins and a mechanism to technologies and add a territorial
raise water. mechanism to raise water.
01'55'' 01'55''
Dans ses recherches, l’architecte se pare de Commencent à apparaitre des substances
matérialités inédites pour exercer son art. folles et inédites, au hasard de quelques
Celles de la Nature où l’humanisme situations tropicales. Comme un petit Brésil
perçoit l’harmonie. caché là.
2'54'' 2'54''
Il y a une ritournelle dans ces deux mythes Les alignements de pins ou d’eucalyptus
que l’architecture raconte. marquent le damier. Dans cette cuvette au
Elle nous parle du premier homme qui fonda . fond plat, planter un arbre est un acte de
une civilisation depuis la forêt, elle nous territoire. Aux routes/paysage s'ajoutent
parle de chasse: Cyparisse chasse, Ferdinand architectures et espaces publics. Ils sont
chasse, puis elle nous parle des morts dédiés aux services, à la société, et à
et du tombeau... l'entretien du système.
Quelles routes parallèles suivirent-ils en rentrant?
Installation, micro interventions dans
la Villa Mediteranèe
Festival !Viva Villa!, Commissaire :
Cecile Debray, Federico Nicolao
2018, Marseille
Beyond Boredom or Suffocation
Maquettes, tailles et matériaux divers
en cours - Rome 2018 - Marseille 2018
Exposition (extrait):
Beyond Boredom or Suffocation, avril 2018, Rome
Festival !Viva Villa!
Commissaire : Cecile Debray, Federico Nicolao, Octobre 2018, Marseille
JAUNE JOY - exhibition at Villa Medici
The places of production are distant and left to the discretion of the technicians who only legislate on their rules of the game. Here we examine the architectural capacity of the new technological condition of our energy and perhaps thus give it a happy and light breath.
Buckmister Fuller patented aluminum and polycarbonate structures, and dreamed of covered glass cities. «Your Private Sky» - frantic vision of progress (unrealized).
The countryside invents a net to protect itself from hail. Harvesting lean, it weaves it thiner for (less than 5% shading), then it colors it, (positively photoselectively). The campaign invents, tests, corrects, tests and improves, experiments, scale 1, space - unbridled progress (in progress). Everything changes, fast, noise, and no time for anyone to contemplate, to look for a vision or a reference. For Louis Kahn the Man remained changed when foresigning that light was white and not yellow and that shadows were black and not blue. These nets are a design drawn to the photon, specular and colored. Positively photoselective at 5% shade.
«Doing the best with the least» / Yellow. Jaune, Joy.
Mediterranneo
Série de photographie, textes, cartes, dessins. en cours, Espagne, Italie, 2016
Exposition (extrait)
Beyond Boredom or Suffocation,
Rome 2018
Festival !Viva Villa!
Octobre 2018, Marseille
Mediterraneo is a territorial corpus and a performative methodology of work, holding our production into one distinctive scope of study. It questions the bounds between energy, climate’s identities and Mediterranean habitability.
Mediterraneo is a process of exploration. It starts with an extensive use of cartographic tools, historical data, narrations, intuitive “correspondences”. It develops into drifts, interviews and photographic or video reports.
Mediterraneo is a project-maker. From a growing corpus of situations hold in a comprehensive whole it stands as material for distinct projects.
Correspondances
Série de photographie, textes, cartes, dessins. en cours, Espagne, Italie, France, 2016
Exposition (extrait)
Beyond Boredom or Suffocation,
Rome 2018
Festival !Viva Villa!
Octobre 2018, Marseille
Correspondances is an open pictorial and textual production that seeks to relate phenomena, landscapes, temporalities, architectures, with each other.
Correspondance seeks to produce evidences to open up prospective research on themes of relationship between productivity and livability.
Beyond Boredom or Suffocation
Maquettes, tailles et matériaux divers
en cours - Rome 2018 - Marseille 2018
Exposition (extrait)
Beyond Boredom or Suffocation, Rome 2018
Festival !Viva Villa!
Commissaire : Cecile Debray, Federico
Nicolao, Octobre 2018, Marseille
“Beyond Boredom or Suffocation» is a on-going series of models and drawing: formal investigations giving an aesthetic perspective to substances of energy and nature: a pendant to “Mediterraneo”.
The objective is to elaborate formal language and strategic, yet lyric action, to question the aim of architecture within our current systemic crisis, and its address : Should we think architecture as a human, elemental, or natural attribute ?
