We are delighted to announce the group exhibition "Breaking the walls, Dino appears", curated by Leiko Ikemura. The theme-based interdisciplinary exhibition brings together visual artists and architects who find or create a poetic approach to the world through similar impulses. While the disciplines of art and architecture were linked during the Renaissance, they have diverged over the centuries within a world of increasing complexity and specialization in general perception. They have strengthened and autotomized their own dynamics; nevertheless, they have much in common.
Leiko Ikemura sees a significant parallel between the two disciplines, particularly in their process-based nature. In the moment of ideation, becoming, and creative process, the formative element, which has not yet been finally determined, constantly reconfigures itself: "Art has no other function than to be art. In connection with architecture, however, it becomes part of a manifestation. In its process-based nature, architecture is artistically involved in the sense that it is liberated from its function. Therefore, when the ideas dream, that is the moment of beauty and openness. The finished buildings almost conceal this process."
The exhibition is dedicated to the complex, synesthetic interweaving of architecture and art, the illumination of their boundaries and a reflection on their proclamations of autonomy. A space, a housing, a skeleton, a sculpture, and a body are defined between placement and omission, between what is to be seen and what has been decidedly left out. This also goes hand in hand with a constitution of "inside" and "outside". This symbiotic, reciprocal relationship also exists in art. A space also means the presence of a cavity. The contour of a sculpture defines the boundary between space and the surrounding or enclosed counter-space.
Both spheres not only create spaces, but also skillfully break them. Through disruptions and obstructions, they guide the gaze, create their dramaturgy in the three-dimensional experiential space. They develop a unique, ephemeral staging and narration only experienced in those spaces. They conceal, delay, obscure, reveal and emphasize. Perspectives, lighting conditions and incidence, light intensity and color, choice of materials and colors, spatial architecture and architectural interventions become a mobile "morph space" to be animated and reconfigured in every second, in every interaction: "The house is an animal, a living organism. It breathes and transforms. It cries and laughs, the place for emotions."
Curator’s statement
The 'house' is an obsession since my childhood. I often dreamed of houses and stretches of water and I made notes of them. Some are fascinatingly lucid, others more traumatic…
Why this is so deeply embedded in me is that even as a child I wanted to build houses and this probably has to do with experience of our house being destroyed by a typhoon… so houses are protection and danger at the same time. They stand between human needs and nature.
This project approaches the interface between art and architecture.
When art becomes visible in the context of spaces, it elevates the other and reveals its essence in a deliberately positioned location.
When architecture drops its function, it becomes sculptural, takes on the porosity of the walls, or creates a coexistence with art that needs a vessel for itself or questions this.
The invited personalities gently touch this interface, which makes the inside and outside permeable.
They interact with each other – change sides – and thus enter into a dialogue.
No floor plans of buildings are shown here, models become a universe in themselves.
House ideas are sometimes dreamy or traumatic. Sculptures are reminiscent of the possibilities of buildings.
When definitions and roles dissolve – what happens?
The constellation of participants opens doors to a different perception of touch, even confrontation, questioning each other.
Leiko Ikemura
