LUMA Arles is dedicated to supporting contemporary artistic creation. Designed as a creative campus, it promotes the Camargue region in which it is located: its landscapes, materials and know-how. Maria Finders, co-founder of the Atelier LUMA design laboratory, tells us about this atypical place.
explore
Laure Colliex spearheaded the establishment of a residence for 200 artists in a high-rise slated for refurbishment. This temporary place of creation located in Clichy is conducive to collaboration between young artists using the surrounding area as a material.
A new stage of reflection from the artist Julien Prévieux on labor and management in the age of digital reproducibility, “Anomalies construites” is a work both fascinating and frightening. Materializing the way machines continue to mock us, this video presents us with the surface of the screen and depth of current change in the modes of creation, production, and exploitation of knowledge. Julien Prévieux is a French artist whose work questions the working world, management, economy, politics and controlling devices. Clément Dirié is an art historian and art critic, curator and editor specialized in contemporary art.
Architecture conveys multiple meanings. An artistic discipline that was initially an expression of culture, it now seems to be increasingly at the service of economic forces. Yet, architectural products are transformed into mere embodiments of their client’s brand image when they are cleverly diverted and made to carry a promotional message. In this game, the big names of architecture emerge as winners, but does this strategy advance architecture itself or does it make it nothing more than an element of prestige subservient to economic performance? Sebastian Redecke is a German architect, editor for the architecture review Bauwelt.