Construire l'image: le corbusier et la photographie
2012 - Musée des beaux-arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds - CH
2012 - Musée des beaux-arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds - CH
A good many exhibitions have already been devoted to the multiple
facets of Le Corbusier's work, but his relationship to photography,
although it touches on many aspects of his varied career, is a theme that
has so far received little attention.
Photography is, of course, an essential medium for the dissemination of
his architectural work, but this exhibition is not limited to the photographic
representations of Le Corbusier's creations. Indeed, what concerns
the curators here is photography not only as a tool for representation,
promotion and diffusion, but also as a means of artistic creation. The
exhibition is presented in 7 sections, which were curated by 6 internationally
renowned curators. Since every curator operated following
different curatorial concepts, the challenge of the exhibition design and
scenography was to develop a consistent language, which converges the
different thematic approaches. For each section, we defined one color
from the famous "Salubra"-palette of Le Corbusier. We positioned the
colored title partitions facing the entrance to each section.The design of
the displays was inspired by an exhibition, which Le Corbusier designed
in the same museum in the 50s. He had placed the displays onto
trestles, which we adopted and reinterpreted for this exhibition. The
simple design and the raw materials (spruce wood) play with the notion
of picture frames.
- Text/Bilder: onlab
- Text/Bilder: onlab