| Renzo Piano Building Workshop architectes, Gênes Répons |
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exposition du jeudi 18 février au dimanche 23 mai 2010 projection + rencontre Renzo Piano, le Chemin Kanak 5 mai 2010, 18:30 |
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![]() Michel Denancé@ RPBW |
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exposition réalisée avec le soutien de la maison HERMÈS |
The Répons (1) exhibit, devoted to Renzo Piano, is part of a cycle of shows conceived by arc en rêve about various themes: uses / landscapes / situations. This exhibit focuses on an architecture which is primarily aimed at celebrating human customs. Attentive to both the program of the project and its location, Renzo Piano applies sophisticated technical means but always avoids ostentation when conceiving a project. The project shall be the most appropriate while remaining unique. Piano sets out to “listen to the needs” implicit in a project, but without compromising himself: for him “architectural disobedience” (2) is a form of commitment and a prerequisite for the act of building. The exhibition Répons – the title echoes that of a work by composer Pierre Boulez, who collaborated with Piano on the designing of the Ircam experimental music centre in Paris in 1977 – offers a selection of fourteen projects that most eloquently convey the architect’s eclecticism and the capacity of his works to form a relationship with their setting and the ambient culture. One would say that in 1979 the Otranto project has invented “use managing” when the citizens of that city were invited into a tent erected in the middle of the historical center of the town. Filling six rooms, the plans, drawings, maquettes and photos are laid out on big worktables so that the visitor can readily inspect them. Some of the executed works – B&B, Ircam, Beyeler Foundation – are presented in association with videos – by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine never shown before, while others are seen through the eye of the famous Italian photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin. Interviews about Piano’s work will be part of the exhibit Repons. 1) A “répons“ was originally part of a religious liturgy alternating between a soloist and a choir, notably in Gregorian chant. This highly traditional form was also used by such 20th-century composers as Pierre Boulez in Répons and Francis Poulenc in Sept Répons des Ténèbres. 2) Renzo Piano, La désobeissance de l’architecte, edited by Arléa, 2007.
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