Thursday, September 25, 2008

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary



At the 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (Biacs) curated by Peter Weibel with co-curators Marie-Ange Brayer and Wonil Rhee

After three years of intensive collaboration between artist 
Matthew Ritchie, architectsAranda\Lasch and geometric/structural designers from Arup AGU, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary is proud to inaugurate The Morning Line at the 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (Biacs). Curator Peter Weibel dedicated this year's Biennial entitled Youniverse to the possible convergence of art and science, and invited the foundation to present its second Art Pavilion project in Seville.

The Morning Line is a groundbreaking architectural project, designated by Ritchie as a porous "anti-pavilion", both ruin and monument, a drawing in and of space, an open cellular structure. To devise an architectural language where geometry and artistic expression are intrinsically united, the New York based architectural duo Aranda\Lasch and specialists from Arup AGU designed a construction element called "the bit" whose shape is derived from a truncated tetrahydron. The bit can be reconfigured in to multiple architectural forms, scaled up and down within fractal cycles to any imaginable size, potentially even to the size of the universe. 

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