architectones by xavier veilhan

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Architectones is the title of a series of works between sculpture and architecture created by Kasimir Malevich.

I chose to name my project after these works by Malevich because my very concern is to establish a dialogue between

art and architecture, in a personal list of modernist venues that I have chosen from around the world. This is not a

show about the history of architecture or another white cube exhibition; it is the answer to a question that I asked

myself: what would be the best, most challenging and most beautiful place for my work?

Architectones begins in Los Angeles at Richard Neutras VDL: this is the most important modern architectural

private residence in America, as well as an architecture practice.

The VDL is house and a machine, the result and the te mplate of the brilliant development a nd vision of a young Aus-

trian architect discovering the west coast and revealing his vision to his American clients.

I have been lucky enough to stay in this house: it is not about faade, but about function, it is not about size or luxury,

but about light and the relationship with the outside. The inside of the building has been designed like a car, a plane

or even more like the cabin of a boat: it is the perfect equation between people and function.

It is a unique opportunity for me to live, work and exhibit in this House: I will create a whole body of site specic

works, related to both actual experience and Richard Neutras life as a grid for a new type of art works narrative. The

House is in an in between space, halfway between privacy and public, actual real time experience and history. I want

Architectones at VDL to seize, celebrate and extend the idea of modernity that this architecture represents.


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