Architectural Columns at the Palais de Tokyo Explode Into Organic Forms // Colossal July 22, 2013 Ba

Architectural Columns at the Palais de Tokyo Explode Into Organic Forms // Colossal July 22, 2013 Baitogogo by Henrique Oliveira at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris Creating a spectacular and invasive Gordian Knot, Henrique Oliveira plays with Palais de Tokyo’s architecture, allowing a work that combines the vegetal and the organic to emerge. The building itself becomes the womb that produces this volume of “tapumes” wood, a material used in Brazilian towns to construct the wooden palisades that surround construction sites. … Through a kind of architectural anthropomorphism, Henrique Oliveira reveals the building’s structure. At Palais de Tokyo, he plays on the space’s existing and structuring features, prolonging and multiplying pillars in order to endow them with a vegetable and organic dimension, as though the building were coming alive. The artist draws inspiration from medical textbooks, amongst others, and particularly from studies of physical pathologies such as tumors. -- source link

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