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Des artistes et membres de l'AAAVT participent à une exposition qui a lieu à :
La Maison Adhémar-Dion
4500, chemin St-Charles
Terrebonne (Québec) J6V 1A3
40% de chaque vente sera pour la fondation; (Centre de soins palliatifs )
Association de l'AAAVT : aaavt.org/
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Photo credit: Joshua Barash
Atelier Lixenberg Dronten NL
Rarely has an artist determined the image of a municipality as strongly as the sculptor and graphic artist Cyril Lixenberg in Dronten in the Flevopolder. The artist had his studio and storage space here, which still houses his legacy. When he settled there, Dronten was still in full development. Lixenberg is everywhere in infinitely spacious Dronten. The fact of the immense space, growth and potential has been a great inspiration for Lixenberg's work, partly because it invited him to think big. The most visible manifestation of this is the sculpture route, consisting of 26 sculptures in the public space that were created on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Dronten in 1997.
The bond between Dronten and Lixenberg has a long history that can be called unusual and unique not only for this municipality. It started in the mid-1980s when a couple wanted to exhibit art on part of their land. They came into contact with Cyril Lixenberg and he immediately saw more possibilities. He had made three sculptures for a temporary exhibition in Breda: a square, a circle and a triangle, which were placed in a straight line behind each other. He immediately saw those sculptures in front of him, but then on the dike of the Ketelmeer. The sculptures were placed in 1988 and are still there.
From the introduction to Cyril Lixenberg a friendship with the city grew. He visited regularly. At the time no one could have foreseen that Dronten would eventually become the city of Cyril Lixenberg. In exchange for a number of monumental works of art, Lixenberg acquired a piece of building land in the municipality of Dronten on which he established his studio and storage. It led to an exceptional, years-long collaboration between the artist and the city in the making. As Dronten grew, countless sculptures by Lixenberg were erected along important access and transit roads.
Founded in 1970, Arcosanti is an arcology designed in the Brutalist style by Paolo Soleri to serve as a self-sufficient community on a desert mesa near Cordes Lakes, Arizona. The buildings that comprise the complex, despite being a work-in-progress, were mostly built between 1971 and 1980, with more sporadic work on a few portions of the complex being completed as recently as 2008. The complex is the result of the design philosophy of Soleri, being an example of his theory of an arcology, combining ecology with architecture, making a dense, self-sufficient community that works with the natural landscape, and an alternative to urban sprawl and more conventional development patterns. Soleri guided the project until his death at the age of 92 in 2013, with further phases of construction being planned. However, Arcosanti has struggled to grow beyond a commune of 150 people, taking on a form and size comparable to a traditional pre-industrial rural village, rather than a town or city with thousands of residents as envisioned by Soleri. Most residents of Arcosanti are like-minded, which is required for the community’s ability to function and operate, and consist primarily of artists, environmentalists, farmers, and sustainability advocates, whom each contribute their skills to the community. In addition to the permanent residents, temporary residents whom spend five weeks attending workshops at the site. Despite its shortcomings, Arcosanti’s relationship to the surrounding environment, radical approach in design, philosophical background, and self-sufficiency are key points that are valuable to consider when designing buildings for sustainability and environmental consciousness, along with being an excellent example of Brutalism, which harmonizes nicely with the surrounding desert landscape.
The buildings at Arcosanti include the boxy, rectilinear Visitor Center, which appears like a medieval tower rising from the edge of the Mesa, with an open pier foundation that provides shelter to visitors entering and exiting the Visitor Trail, the half-domes for the Ceramics Studio and Metallurgy Foundry, various resident apartments, which demonstrate varying exterior characteristics, a barrel vaulted canopy over the central plaza, known as the vaults, a laboratory that houses a greenhouse and woodshed, allowing for food to be grown more efficiently and for items to be crafted by residents, the East Crescent, which contains resident housing and surrounds a central amphitheater. The site also features a swimming pool, gardens, resident cabins, which mostly date to the first stages of construction in the early 1970s, a self-contained wastewater management system, and guest rooms for visitors. The main complex of buildings are arranged at the edge of a mesa, overlooking a canyon, with smaller buildings located further down into the canyon and in the bottomlands along the Agua Fria River.
Arcosanti provides a counterpoint to the modern development pattern, one that is more sensitive and respectful to the landscape and the natural environment, and a design that fosters a strong sense of community, all of which are lacking from most new development being built today. Residents are able to quickly walk to work and to amenities within the community, reducing the dependency on cars and mechanized transportation. Additionally, buildings are designed to be energy efficient, incorporating passive strategies for thermal regulation and lighting. The complex, owned by the Cosanti foundation, remains a work in progress, with only ten percent of the proposed buildings being complete, and cover a very small area of the larger property owned by the foundation, with most of the land being left in its natural state or utilized for agriculture. Tours are available for visitors, along with overnight stays in the guest rooms at the complex, and the complex continues to house and foster a tight-knit, vibrant community.
Creator: State Library of Queensland
Description: Portrait of an Artist featuring Queensland based artist Lawrence Daws was held on 2 November 2018 at State Library. The event series is generously supported by James C Sourris AM through Queensland Library Foundation.
Watch Lawrence's interview in the James C Sourris Collection at State Library of Queensland: www.slq.qld.gov.au/discover/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/james-c-sourris-am-collection
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Artist: Brigitte Sillard
Title: verre serpent (glass snake)
du vent dans les branches (wind in the branches) exhibition
Jardin du Luxembourg
Paris, France