........................................................................................................................................ CONVERSATION JULIA PICCOLO + ALESSANDRA PONTE 05.27, 2pm In the context of "Stretch", Julia Piccolo invited Alessandra Ponte - professor at the School of Architecture of the UDM - to discuss the issues related to her exhibition. - Alessandra Ponte is Full professor at the École d’architecture, Université de Montréal. She has also taught at the IUAV (Venice), the schools of architecture of Princeton University and Cornell University, at Pratt Institute (New York) and the ETH (Zurich). Since 2008, she has been responsible for the Phyllis Lambert International Seminar, a series of colloquia held at the Université de Montréal. Curator of the exhibition Total Environment: Montreal 1965-1975(Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, 2009), she also collaborated to the exhibition and catalogue God & Co: François Dallegret Beyond the Bubble (with Laurent Stalder and Thomas Weaver, London: Architectural Association Publications, 2011). She contributed to the Canadian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 2014 Artic Adaptation and 2016 Extraction. Among her recent publications: The House of Light and Entropy (London: AA Publications, 2014) and the series Architecture et Information 2.0//2017, Architecture et Information 2.0//2018, Architecture et Information 2.0// 2020, Architecture/Territoire/Information 4.0//2021, Architecture/Territoire/Information 4.0//2022 (École d’architecture, Université de Montréal, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022). ........................................................................................................................................ |
STRETCH
JULIA PICCOLO 04.20-06.3 Opening 04.20, 6pm Julia Piccolo extracts textile materials from a world that – according to the collective and patriarchal imagination – is assigned to women, craftwork, and domesticity. She explores the plasticity of woven material, bringing it into virtual and conceptual spaces and other fields such as architecture and the decorative arts. Using different techniques (painting, sculpture, digital tools), the artist establishes an organic relationship with space with supple works that espouse and adapt to their environment. There is an ancestral and intimate connection between architecture and textiles. Fibres and skins are worked to make clothes or nomadic homes. They evoke notions of shelter, protection, vulnerability, the intimacy of home. Coexisting membranes are also eluded to: the human skin, more than human, plant and animal fibres. A fusion as deliberate as it is unconscious takes place between space, fibres, and visible and invisible bodies. Layer by layer, Piccolo excavates an ancient history that connects humanity to threads and fibres. Personal and collective stories accumulate. Her multicolored sculptures speak of extrusions, referencing infinite material mechanically unfurled. Like the artist’s painting that measures more than 20 meters long, evoking a strange landscape. The relationship between the mediums and their habitat is porous. The sculpture melds into the paint and vice versa. The digital and organic forms are also connected by successive layers of contrasting colors and multiple motifs. The latter recall our own memories and experiences. Reflecting sampled lives, the works evoke a timeless collective story that knows no bounds. A story, both compact and stretched out, of our past, present and future existences, in which Piccolo highlights movement, openness, and depth. Julie Crenn | Translated by Sarah Knight Julia Piccolo would like to thank the Conseil des arts for its financial support |
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