Singing Stones

Exhibited in one of the Chicago’s architectural mastepieces, the exhibition promoted by Palais de Tokyo explores the relationship between art and architecture.

Cauleen Smith, <i>Remote Viewing (lm still)</i>, 2009 Digital video, 14:00 minutes
The Palais de Tokyo will present a group show alongside the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The exhibition, which brings together thirteen artists, including a designer, amidst one of Chicago’s iconic buildings, explores the multiple relationships between art and architecture. How do artists appropriate the various methods used in architecture? And how do they, uniquely, participate in the construction of an artistic work which has been traditionally freed from any utilitarian function?

 

The exhibition is being presented in an architectural masterpiece, which is strongly rooted in the city’s history and will be reopening to the public for the first time for many years: The Roundhouse. At the heart of this remarkable edifice, within its singular space, the show creates an intimate dialogue between original productions and pre-existent works. A selection of the on- site pieces, conceived and produced specifically for this event by guest artists – Wilfrid Almendra, Thomas Teurlai and the Floating Museum collective – in dialogue with the architectural envelope that surrounds them, distinguish themselves by providing a support, or a frame, for the works of other artists, while being artworks themselves.

Raphaël Zarka, Paving Space, 2016, instrumental sculptures in solid oak-tree Skater: Sylvain Tognelli , Photo: Maxime Verret. Production Carhartt WIP, Courtesy Raphaël Zarka and Michel Rein, Paris/Brussels
Raphaël Zarka, Paving Space, 2016, instrumental sculptures in solid oak-tree Skater: Sylvain Tognelli. Photo Maxime Verret. Production Carhartt WIP, Courtesy Raphaël Zarka and Michel Rein, Paris/Brussels

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