April on Shelter – highlights include The Power of Utopia and Observatory of Light.
Explore the Indian city deeply interwoven with the utopian city-planning and design of the iconic Le Corbusier; and marvel at the spectacular light and glass display on an iconic Parisian museum this April on SHELTER.
THE POWER OF UTOPIA: LIVING WITH LE CORBUSIER IN CHANDIGRAH
What would a utopian city of the 20th century look like, if designed by one of the most iconic & revered architects of the era? And would it all work?
Discover the incredible planned city of Chandigarh in India; the largest and most ambitious project of the renowned Swiss and French architect Le Corbusier.
Designed and constructed in the 1950s, Chandigarh is a controversial synthesis of the arts and a bold utopia of modernity; that strived to become a human city – not another industrial city.
THE POWER OF UTOPIA accompanies four cultural workers who live in the planned city and reflects on Le Corbusier’s legacy, utopian urban ideas and the cultural differences between East and West in an atmospherically dense narrative.
“Utopian ideas were very fitting of those times, because they were very idealistic!”
“In conception, it was utopian. What has turned out; I’m not so sure.”
“Everything that was planned, the human being was at the centre.”
THE POWER OF UTOPIA
- (84 mins)
- Switzerland & India
- 2023 (Available April 15)
A WORLD BORNE BY COLOURS: OBSERVATORY OF LIGHT
View the stunning reveal of artist Daniel Buren’s Observatory of Light, an ever-evolving light and colour display, spread across the glass exterior of the Frank Gehry-designed Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.
The twelve ‘sails’ that drape the exterior, formed of 3,600 pieces of glass, are covered by a staggering array of coloured filters. The thirteen selected colours appear and disappear – ever-changing with the time of day and the season. Through a play of colours, projections, reflections, transparencies and contrasts, both inside and outside, Buren shows the Louis Vuitton Foundation in a new light.
Buren talks to us about his work and its challenges, and is accompanied by curator Suzanne Pagé and engineer Nicolas Paschal, who in turn discuss the work and the artist; as well as a number of visitors to the Foundation.
“A museum is for the artists, and perhaps to be destroyed and reimagined, so as far as I’m concerned; do as you please!”
“On sunny days this work is in perpetual movement.”
OBSERVATORY OF LIGHT
- (25 mins) France 2016 (Available April 29)
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