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SCAD-Lacoste: "Chimeres"
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7/7/2006 View the Chimères image gallery or watch an On Demand video about this exhibition SCAD-Lacoste presents “Chimères” July 7–Sept. 1. The exhibition’s site-specific installations will be exhibited throughout the village of Lacoste, as well as in many of the college’s exhibition spaces, including the main gallery, Galerie Pfriem, located at rue du Four. All exhibition spaces are free and open to the public Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., and Saturday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. “Chimères” is a fabrication of joined disparate parts. The artists’ projects are complete bodies of work, joined through a shared inspiration — the perception of landscape and desire to formulate a response. The works are unified by a mix of the hard and soft qualities of the Provence hillside and the pliable nature and chiseled limestone of Lacoste. The exhibition features “Wind Shape” by New York-based firm nArchitects, founded by partners Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang in 1999. “Wind Shape” echoes both the Provencal agricultural landscape and medieval stone villages to form inhabitable outdoor environments on Lacoste’s terraces. The pavilions are constructed of vine-like networks of white plastic pipes threaded with polypropylene string. The variably taut structures respond to and register the Mistral wind, inviting visitors to investigate the interior and linger inside the ephemeral enclosures. The structures are an inverse of the surrounding traditional thick masonry walls, diaphanous fictional reconstruction towering seven meters in height. nArchitects' work has been recognized nationally and internationally in publications and exhibitions. Recent awards include the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices Award (2006), an AIA Design Honor Award (2005), the Canadian Professional Rome Prize (2005), Architectural Record's Design Vanguard (2004), the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program (2004), and a New York Foundation for the Arts grant (2002). “Unfolding: The Evolution of Wind Shape” in La Galerie Bleue presents a design-build collaborative process between nArchitects and four SCAD students — M.Arch. candidates Jim Bischoff, Michael Gunter, M.F.A. candidate Cindy Hartness and Ryan Townsend (B.F.A., architecture, 2006). Selected to participate in the construction and installation of “Wind Shape,” these students helped develop the design of the string enclosure, including its weaving pattern and weaving methods. These experiments are central to the success of the finalized design, built in part by the students. “Unfolding” is a chronicle of the process from start to finish. The Dandy Dwarves, a collective of SCAD filmmakers and video artists, has documented the process of design and construction of “Wind Shape.” They will show a selection of independent works that is a hybrid of surrealistic narration. These will be digitally projected in the interiors of natural cave-like enclosures throughout the town. The Dandy Dwarves have collaborated on 14 short films and have been featured at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marche du Film. In Galerie Pfriem, SCAD presents French artist Piotr Klemensiewicz. A painter and professor at the Universite of Beaux Arts in Marseilles, Klemensiewicz works with the noted artist collective Chambre avec vu and has published eight books of his work. The most recent, “Obstructions,” was released in 2005. His solo exhibitions and corporate installations have garnered critical acclaim throughout France, Korea and Canada.
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