Feuilles Mortes. Briquette, 2014
fallen leaves,
183 x 70 x 113 cm
unique
courtesy of the artist
ephemeral site-specific sculpture
The Moscow State Architectural and Natural Landscape Museum Kolomenskoe
April - December 2014
(until natural degradation)
ENG // FR
Feuilles Mortes. Briquette is a site-specific sculpture realized for the State Architectural and Natural Museum Kolomenskoe in Moscow. It is inspired by typical soviet very poor social housing that overwhelmed Moscow since 60s (Kroushchyovka or Krushchev slum), while its title, fallen leaves, refers to the nostalgic love poem of the french surrealist author Jacques Prévert.
The sculpture is a model of a typical Moscow Kroushchyovka reduced to a human scale: its length is 183 cm, the reference introduced by Le Corbusier for the human size. The artist takes as a material the most commun in the autumn, element of the urban landscape, while the ephemeral character of the sculpture refers to the perility of Kroushchyovkas known for numerous problems of conservation and exploitation because of the low-cost materials.
« The fallen leaves were gathered in the spring. Under the snow they have been preserved, they survived to the winter. The fallen leaves have the form of a parallelepiped making up an object naturally impossible as well as non-functional. The organic material, living, is subject to the regular, geometrical, architectural shape » (Katya Ev).
Feuilles Mortes. Briquette (fr. - fallen leaves, briquet) is a model of soviet buildings standard in a reduced at the human body scale. The length of the briquette, 183 cm, corresponds to the standard measure of the utopian housing which inspired this architecture : departing from the standard size of a common adult man, 183 cm, Le Corbusier has chosen the human body as a standard , the first architectural “module”, to build with this measure, and from the principle of Golden Section, interior spaces.
An exterior and an interior, a module and an entity, the briquette looks like a standardised construction building - the utopia of the accessible housing, became one of the most despised contemporary architectural shapes - as well as its first “module”, standardised as well, the human body as an architectural fractal.
FEUILLES MORTES. BRIQUETTE
2014
Feuilles
183 x 70 x 113 cm
Projet in situ éphémère, parc Kolomenskoe, Moscou, Russie
modèle d'un immeuble soviètique type reduit à la mésure standart du corps humain, 183 cm,
.
Les feuilles mortes ont été récoltées au printemps. Sous la neige elles se sont conservées, elles ont survécu à l’hiver. Les feuilles mortes forment un parallélépipède constituant un objet à la fois impossible naturellement et non-fonctionnel. La matière organique, vivante, est soumise à la forme régulière, géométrique, architecturale.
FEUILLES. BRIQUETTE est un modèle d’immeuble soviétique type réduit à l’échelle du corps humain. La longueur de la briquette, 183 cm, correspond à la mesure étalon de l’habitat utopique ayant inspiré cette architecture : en partant de la taille moyenne d’un homme adulte, 183 cm, Le Corbusier a pris le corps humain en tant qu’étalon, le “module” premier de l’architecture, pour construire d’après cette mesure et selon le principe de la section d’or des espaces intérieurs.
Un extérieur et un intérieur, un module et une entité, la briquette parait être à la fois un bâtiment de construction standardisé - l’utopie du logement accessible, devenue l’une des formes de l’architecture actuelle les plus méprisées - et son ‘module premier’, standardisé également, le corps humain comme un fractale architectural.