Clémentine Dupré: Typologie

Clémentine Dupré: Typologie, 2017-2020

And what if making the city were about substraction rather than addition ? Or about cutting vertiginous spaces through existing buildings ? An artist carves out large conical voids, cutting into walls and floors, thereby reveal-ing the internal structure of a building through an experience that is both destabilizing and political. (#1)

When dynamic heaven and static earth collide, architecture can attain a dimension that is at once dreamlike, conceptual, literary, and poetic. (#2)

Serious people see in typology a constant that traverses the history of architecture through the ages, giving it specificity and autonomy. Taken to the extreme, a rational argument can sometimes achieve a surreal dimen-sion… (#3)

(#1) Gordon Matta-Clark, Office baroque, 1977
(#2) Raimund Abraham, Monument to aviation,1979
(#3) Aldo Rossi, Teatro del mondo, 1981

Materials used: glazed stoneware

Photos by Anthony Girardi