American artist and Wallpaper* Design Awards 2022 judge Doug Aitken discusses art that fuses humanity to nature, and how architecture and design ‘should be about the entire narrative, rather tha...
on the occasion of the Parisian fashion label’s first physical catwalk presentation since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Set on the Isola della Certosa, a vacant island that played host to a military munition and bomb factory until the 1960s,took the form of a mirrored pavilion that reflected its surrounding landscape by day and becomes a kinetic lightat night.
Aitken tells me that Kéré’s architecture reminds him of Arcosanti, an experimental new town by the late Italian-American architect Paolo Soleri. ‘He just got this arid, inexpensive land in the Arizona desert and started a system of building from rammed earth and adobe, reconfiguring the landscape around him into these domes and habitats.’ It’s the opposite of the starchitect-designed, pristine, monumental structures that used to draw widespread acclaim.
, align with the artist’s ongoing ruminations on how art, architecture and design ‘should be about the entire narrative, rather than the endpoint’. Along these lines, Aitken is now working on two improvisational film projects on the West Coast: one follows a coastal community of drifters, the other strings together conversations with the inhabitants of a small American town surrounded by oil fields that seems unable to escape its fossil fuel-driven past.
. Photography: Fred Charles. Courtesy of the artist, 303 Gallery, New York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; Victoria Miro Gallery, London; and Regen Projects, Los Angeles, 2015. Video installation with seven-channel composite video, seven blended projections, 360-degree aluminum and PVC screen; Installation view at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt.
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