For one summer time, the New York darling of design and modern artwork is shifting to the MAMO on the roof of the Cité Radieuse in Marseille. In partnership with Galerie Perrotin, this artwork middle, founded by Ora Ito, hosts the site-specific exhibition, “The Basketball Modulor.”
On this singular work, Arsham explores themes which are specific to him, such as the concept of time, the connection to history, but in addition sport, including basketball. The set up takes place in a room that was historically used as a gymnasium. With references to the colours of the Unité d’Habitation and to the proportions of the “Modulor,” a system of measurements conceived by the famous French architect Le Corbusier, Daniel Arsham works on this concept of scale, while emphasizing the linear facet of time. Thus, the exhibition room takes up the yellow and blue of Le Corbusier, his solar motifs, to which basketballs have been related, used on banners, a flag and on the courtroom. Erosion, an important concept in Arsham’s work, is to be present in sculpted balls positioned in buildings harking back to the well-known LC4. Finally, on the roof terrace, the New Yorker has chosen to install a collection of bronze sculptures evoking several durations of historical past, akin to Greece and Historic Rome. They are adorned with indicators of erosion in crystal, and can be exposed to the elements on the prime of the Cité Radieuse, the emblematic constructing of the Phocaean city.
“The Modulor of Basketball” on the MAMO Centre d’Art de la Cité Radieuse till September 25
Modulor
Lisa Agostini
L’article THE MODULOR OF LE CORBUSIER REVISITED BY DANIEL ARSHAM est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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