Betts Project

➖ Gertrude Gibbons: Betts Project, 100 Central Street ➖ . Thank you! @soanywaymagazine #gertrudegibbons

Beate Hølmebakk arrived today with her 'Cake from Munch', and we are all ready for tonight's opening,6-8pm.

Manthey Kula: Postluded PV Friday 24 January, 6 — 8 pm
Manthey Kula is widely recognised in Norway and abroad for their unique and acutely site-specific architecture which works at the intersection of art, architecture and landscape architecture. Their practice takes on distinctively sculptural and expressionistic qualities which pay special attention to site, form and narrative. Established in 2004 by Beate Hølmebakk and Per Tamsen, Manthey Kula’s work has been presented in... architecture exhibitions and collections worldwide, with projects nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2009, 2011 and 2019.
The exhibition Postludes takes its title from the last and conclusive element one might add to a construction, and draws attention to the nature and post-potential of architectural drawing. The repertoire of roles and characteristics during the development of architectural drawing is manifold. For instance in its early stages sketching is a method used to explore and cultivate concepts, often allowing intuition and impulse to play out. Later, the drawing develops into a field for thoughts to become measurable and ideas realisable.
The works found in Postludes operate as creative endeavours to afix a new and conclusive stage to this design process. Each work departs from one of Manthey Kula’s ongoing or completed projects from the last ten years, and instead of facilitating a schematic representaiton of the project, this new stage takes a more expressive exploration into form and architecture. The variously coloured papers are delicately cut, juxtaposed and layered over each other, creating motives that deviate from their original plans yet hint at architectural features such as railing elements, gutter holes, ramps, elevations, walkways or columns. This process of cutting and further abstracting architectural forms and functions can be seen as methods of freeing content from their original meanings and reappointing it to new systems of architectural awareness, thereby unveiling new narratives and posing new enquiries into the possibilities of architectural drawing.
#mantheykula #postludes #norway #architecture #drawing #collage #londonexhibition
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Luke Caspar Pearson ‘DWG Hunter', 2019 Digital Video Game Ed. of 3 (USB and digital print)
... DWG Hunter is a digital videogame that uses a procedural generation system for distributing symbolic architectural objects, exploring architecture as a playable, responsive system for spatial composition. Inspired by the playful isotropic grids of Archizoom, a computational algorithm interprets player button presses to produce an infinite number of possible architectural configurations in a virtual environment. The system distributes architectural structures, supporting floors and environmental elements to produce a world that becomes the informational ‘quantitative utopia’ that Archizoom argued for.
Luke Caspar Pearson is a Lecturer in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL where he is Co-Director of the undergraduate Architecture programme. He is co-founder of the design research practice You+Pea with Sandra Youkhana, whose research operates at the intersection of architecture and game design. You+Pea have had solo exhibitions at the Royal Institute of British Architects and Edge Gallery Bath, and have exhibited at venues such as Somerset House, the V&A and internationally including South Korea. Luke has written for publications such as eflux Architecture, FRAME, Thresholds, The Journal of Architectural Education and ARQ and is co-editor of Architectural Design: Re-Imagining the Avant-Garde (Wiley, 2019). . . #lukepearson #dwghunter #videogame #reimaginingtheavantgarde #architecture #londonexhibition #betteproject
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💥Damjan Jovanovic💥 ‘Supersurface', 2016 Film, 16:00 Ed. of 3
... Supersurface “the only architecture will be our lives...” . . Supersurface is a first-person, exploration based immersive environment for Windows. It is a love letter to the early projects of a radical Italian architecture group Superstudio.
My work is situated at the intersection of architectural design, pedagogy and software design. I am investigating the technical, conceptual and cultural effects of software in its complete takeover of the image space of architecture. I do this through making apps that are tools of design and mediums of representation at the same time. Apps that create architectural assemblages by sampling and mixing digital readymades. I work with versions and screenshots. I deploy these apps into an academic setting to test their immediate effects. I work with students to ask questions about the nature of architectural imagery within the digital regime. We rehearse the techniques of radical embrace of the digital image regime. Heuristic, Surfing, Improvisation technologies (obligatory Forsythe reference). Did I mention aesthetics? . . #damjanjovanovic #supersurface #loveletter #superstudio #reimaginingtheavantgarde #londonexhibition #architecture #video #bettsproject
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💥Ant Farm💥 ‘Truckstop (1970-71)' Digital prints on foam core, 30 x 40.5 cm Series of 4
... Ant Farm ‘Truckstop Network Placemat', 1970 Offset lithographic map, 28 x 43 cm Signed
Ant Farm’s Truckstop Network, an expansive project that scouted the existing American interstate highway network and proposed alternate modes of occupying its infrastructure. Mobile communities, linked through an electronic network and equipped with new tools and media technologies, would displace the old and the obsolete. For example, the existing commodity system and carbon fuel culture would be replaced by an emerging ecologically oriented economy that would circulate “energy credits” in place of dollars.
Ant Farm was founded in 1968 by Chip Lord and Doug Michels and soon joined by Hudson Marquez and Curtis Schreier. They explored the experimental fringe in architecture and design for ten years and crossed disciplinary boundaries into performance art and video art as they produced Cadillac Ranch, Media Burn, The Eternal Frame, Dolphin Embassy and other works. The House of the Century won a Progressive Architecture Design Citation when completed in 1973. In 1978 a fire destroyed their studio at Pier 40 in San Francisco and the group disbanded.
A retrospective exhibition, “Ant Farm 1968 – 1978” was mounted by the Berkeley Art Museum in 2004 and travelled to five other venues. Archives of Ant Farm’s work are held by the Berkeley Art Museum, The Avery Library of Art and Architecture at Columbia University, and the FRAC Centre, Orleans, France.
Doug Michels died in 2003 Chip Lord and Curtis Schreier live in San Francisco Hudson Marquez lives in Los Angeles . . #antfarm #truckstop #reimaginingtheavantgarde #london #architecture #bettsproject
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LAST DAY 💥Jimenez Lai/Bureau Spectacular💥 ‘Dashes and Shadows' , 2019 hand drawing printed on paper, 21.6 x 27.9 cm
... This drawing represents the absence of solids - only the immaterial is communicated here. Property lines or political jurisdictions are implied territories that we demarcate with or without the architectural cut.
Jimenez Lai works in the world of art, culture, and education. Around the turn of the century, Jimenez Lai lived in a desert shelter at Taliesin and resided in a shipping container at Atelier Van Lieshout on the piers of Rotterdam. Lai has won various awards, including the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Debut Award at the Lisbon Triennale, and the 2017 Designer of the Future Award at Art Basel / Design Miami. In 2014, Lai represented Taiwan at the 14th Venice Architectural Biennale. In 2015, Lai organized the Treatise exhibition and publication series at the Graham Foundation. Alongside MoMA, Lai’s work has been collected by SFMOMA, Art Institute of Chicago, and LACMA. . . #jimenezlai #bureauspectacular #dashesandshadows #architecture #drawing #architecturaldrawings #bettsproject #reimaginingtheavantgarde
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💥Aldo Rossi💥 'The Dutch Tower', 1985-89 Model: Wood, rubber and screenprint, 8.5 x 8.5 x 18.5 cm .... .
“The lack of evolution in my work has been the sourse of some misunderstanding, but it also brings me joy... The compulsion to repeat may manifest a lack of hope, but it seems to me that to continue making the same thing over and over again, in order to reach different results, is not merely an exercise: it provides a unique freedom to discover.” A.R. ‘Like a master, Rossi follows the road traced by the masters of architecture, and so rediscovers the necessity of mergin culture with technique, the past with the future, recollection with novelty. [...] Lighthouses and Towers overlook all this architecture: they are themes and signs that indicate the continuity of an idea of the space and the city which is marked with strong architectural constructions. Even the Duth Tower expresses and reflects an architectonic ideal that never lost its magic content which is always able to acquire power and meaning for the realisation of the city of the future.’ S. Umberto Barbieri/89 . . #aldorossi #thedutchtower #reimaginingtheavantgarde #architecture #models #londonexhibition #bettsproject
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LAST DAYS . 💥Office Kovacs💥 ‘Miniature Maze, Toronto Waterfront, Toronto, Canada', 2017 Altered readymades, paint, paper, fish tank plants, HO scale figures, 15 x 15 x 8cm... Unique
Office Kovacs ‘Wedge Gallery Installation', 2018 Wood, paper, altered ready mades, museum board, paint, 38 x 11 x 13 cm Unique . . Our approach begins by collecting architectural elements in the world, assessing and making judgements about these elements in order to alter and recompose them towards new architectural and social purposes. In Miniature Maze we aim to appropriate a number of different walls types through both construction type, existing ready-made walls, and reclaimed walls. Contiguity is comparison pushed to its extreme. It occurs when the distance required to compare is collapsed and reduced to zero. Through the contiguous assembly of ready-made parts we aim to produce new forms with new collective functions. . . #officekovacs #andrewkovacs #miniaturemaze #wedgegallery #reimaginingtheavantgarde #architecture #londonexhibition #bettsproject @ Betts Project
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LAST DAYS 💥Warehouse for Architecture and Research (WAR)💥 'Il Dramun (Drama by Moonlight)', 2018 Giclée ink on paper 54 x 54 cm... Ed. of 4, signed and numbered GBP 300
The Dramun, disguised as a comic strip, is an unexpected result of an architectural project, a residential complex located in between Pesaro and Urbino, in central Italy. This drawing emphasizes the outskirts - suspended between the suburbs and the countryside - the very pop atmosphere and village-setting perceived at the first site visit. In order to face the rapid and sometimes superficial web searching, WAR staged a simple and corny story that captures the attention of an unfocused viewer but, at the same time, shows all the details of the project. . . WAR was founded in Rome in 2013. Its essence lies between the concept of a mannerist architecture studio and an independent space for research in the contemporary practice. Their works have been exhibited in Rome, Venice, Milan, New York, at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, and published in international magazines such as Artribune, Corriere della Sera, Domus, Summa+, The Architect’s Newspaper among others. . . #reimaginingtheavantgarde #war #warehouseforarchitectureandresearch #ildramun #architecturedrawing #print #londonexhibition #bettsproject
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LAST DAYS 💥Nemestudio / Neyran Turan💥 'Reassembly-as-Cooper as an apartment building (New Cadavre Exquis)', 2017 Digital print on canvas, 50 x 50 cm . .... New Cadavre Exquis speculates on architecture’s materiality in the context of digital accumulation. The project consists of four architectural assemblies, which are created via a sampling process of digital readymades ranging from everyday objects, building elements, primitive forms and natural features from the 3D Warehouse—an online open-source digital library of more than 2 million 3D models. .. . Neyran Turan is an architect and partner at NEMESTUDIO. She is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Architecture at the University of California-Berkeley. Her work focuses on alternative forms of environmental imagination within architecture and their capacity for new aesthetic and political trajectories. Turan has recently been selected to curate the Turkish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2020. . . #reimaginingtheavantgarde #nemestudui #neyranturan #cadavreexquis #londonexhibition #architecture #print #bettsproject #venicebiennale2020
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LAST DAYS 💥Nemestudio / Neyran Turan💥 'Reassembly-as-Cooper as an apartment building (New Cadavre Exquis)', 2017 Digital print on canvas, 50 x 50 cm . .... New Cadavre Exquis speculates on architecture’s materiality in the context of digital accumulation. The project consists of four architectural assemblies, which are created via a sampling process of digital readymades ranging from everyday objects, building elements, primitive forms and natural features from the 3D Warehouse—an online open-source digital library of more than 2 million 3D models. .. . Neyran Turan is an architect and partner at NEMESTUDIO. She is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Architecture at the University of California-Berkeley. Her work focuses on alternative forms of environmental imagination within architecture and their capacity for new aesthetic and political trajectories. Turan has recently been selected to curate the Turkish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2020. . . #reimaginingtheavantgarde #nemestudui #neyranturan #cadavreexquis #londonexhibition #architecture #print #bettsproject #venicebiennale2020
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LAST DAYS 💥Nemestudio / Neyran Turan💥 'Reassembly-as-Cooper as an apartment building (New Cadavre Exquis)', 2017 Digital print on canvas, 50 x 50 cm .... . New Cadavre Exquis speculates on architecture’s materiality in the context of digital accumulation. The project consists of four architectural assemblies, which are created via a sampling process of digital readymades ranging from everyday objects, building elements, primitive forms and natural features from the 3D Warehouse—an online open-source digital library of more than 2 million 3D models. .. . Neyran Turan is an architect and partner at NEMESTUDIO. She is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Architecture at the University of California-Berkeley. Her work focuses on alternative forms of environmental imagination within architecture and their capacity for new aesthetic and political trajectories. Turan has recently been selected to curate the Turkish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2020. . . #reimaginingtheavantgarde #nemestudui #neyranturan #cadavreexquis #londonexhibition #architecture #print #bettsproject #venicebiennale2020 @ Betts Project
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💥Traumnovelle💥 'Roadside Picnic', 2019 Computer drawing, 21 x 27.9 cm Ed of 5, signed and numbered .... .
« Visitors came to Earth. They arrived out of the blue and left without a warning. In the Zone that they occupied without interacting with humankind, they abandoned all sorts of objects. Trap-objects. Bomb-objects. Miracle-objects. Objects that a few stalkers pillage at the risk of their lives, like clueless bugs would colonize the remnants of a roadside picnic. » Roadside Picnic, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1972 . .
Traumnovelle uses the site of Porte Ouest in Charleroi as an exploration and archive of a glorious industrial history transformed into a sublime ruin. The ultra-realist intervention transcends the decrepitude of the ruined elements and reveals an anthropocenic narrative of beauty and death, transporting visitors to a past that may or may not have taken place. . .
Traumnovelle is a militant faction founded by three Belgian architects: Léone Drapeaud, Manuel León Fanjul and Johnny Leya. Traumnovelle uses architecture and fiction as analytical, critical and subversive tools to emphasize contemporary issues and dissect their resolutions. Traumnovelle alternates between cynicism and enthusiasm all the while advocating for critical thinking in architecture. Traumnovelle champions a multi-disciplinary approach with architecture at the crossroads. Traumnovelle distances itself from current forms of naive architecture and refuses to glorify the mundane. Traumnovellesides with those who have not sacrificed ambition and criticism. . .
#reimaginingtheavantgarde #roadsidepicnic #traumnovelle #leonedrapeaud #manuelleonfanjul #johnnyleya #artandarchitecture #londonexhibition #bettsprojec
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💥WAI Architecture Think Tank💥 'Goldenscapes Without Qualities', 2019 Gouache, oil pastel, graphite, cardboard, cut-and-pasted pigment on golden mat board 30 x 30 cm Series of 5 unique collages... . . WAI Architecture Think Tank is an international studio practicing architecture, urbanism and architectural research. Founded in Brussels in 2008 by Puerto Rican architect, artist, curator, educator, author and theorist Cruz Garcia and French architect, artist, curator, educator, author and poet, Nathalie Frankowski.
WAI Architecture Think Tank aims to contribute to the collective intelligence of architecture from a panoramic and critical approach oscillating from the design of buildings and master plans with a public agenda, to the creation of publications and pedagogical projects addressing questions of historical urgency. Recent projects include the shortlisted design of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) in Moscow, the design of Osiri Innovation Learning Center, an invited competition for a museum in Suzhou, and the design of the Housetelier in Beijing, as well as the design of several educational, cultural and exhibition spaces, and the conception of architectural playgrounds. The work of WAI and Garcia Frankowski has been featured in the 1st Chicago Architecture Biennial, the XIV Venice Architecture Biennale and the inaugural Changjian Photography and Video Biennale as well as in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Museum of Art Architecture and Technology in Lisbon (MAAT) , Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, Kunst-Werke KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Changjian Museum of Contemporary Art in Chongqin, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) in Manchester. . .
#reimaginingtheavantgarde #waithinktank #nathaliefrankowski #cruzgarcia #goldenscapeswithoutqualities #artandarchitecture #londonexhibition #bettsproject
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💥WAI Architecture Think Tank💥 'Goldenscapes Without Qualities', 2019 Gouache, oil pastel, graphite, cardboard, cut-and-pasted pigment on golden mat board 30 x 30 cm Series of 5 unique collages... . . WAI Architecture Think Tank is an international studio practicing architecture, urbanism and architectural research. Founded in Brussels in 2008 by Puerto Rican architect, artist, curator, educator, author and theorist Cruz Garcia and French architect, artist, curator, educator, author and poet, Nathalie Frankowski.
WAI Architecture Think Tank aims to contribute to the collective intelligence of architecture from a panoramic and critical approach oscillating from the design of buildings and master plans with a public agenda, to the creation of publications and pedagogical projects addressing questions of historical urgency. Recent projects include the shortlisted design of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) in Moscow, the design of Osiri Innovation Learning Center, an invited competition for a museum in Suzhou, and the design of the Housetelier in Beijing, as well as the design of several educational, cultural and exhibition spaces, and the conception of architectural playgrounds.
The work of WAI and Garcia Frankowski has been featured in the 1st Chicago Architecture Biennial, the XIV Venice Architecture Biennale and the inaugural Changjian Photography and Video Biennale as well as in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Museum of Art Architecture and Technology in Lisbon (MAAT) , Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, Kunst-Werke KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Changjian Museum of Contemporary Art in Chongqin, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) in Manchester. . .
#reimaginingtheavantgarde #waithinktank #nathaliefrankowski #cruzgarcia #goldenscapeswithoutqualities #artandarchitecture #londonexhibition #bettsproject @ Betts Project
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💥WAI Architecture Think Tank💥 'Goldenscapes Without Qualities', 2019 Gouache, oil pastel, graphite, cardboard, cut-and-pasted pigment on golden mat board 30 x 30 cm Series of 5 unique collages... . . Produced in the post-colonial studios of the North American branch of Post-Novis (the architectural collective of worldmakers), Goldenscapes Without Qualities explores the aftermath of avant-garde iconography after a prematurely announced ‘end of history’.
The series of five collages exposes through the glowing paper, gouache compositions, and cut-and-pasted effigies the tension between pure form and ideology in the construction of post-historical narratives. In these Goldenscapes, Hardcorist icons freed from ideology (Cubes, and Pyramids) coexist with Pure Architecture freed from programme (Suprematist Architectons) as the Pure form of Ideological Propaganda (the Red Wedge El Lissiztky beat the Whites with) flies through.
Whether a crumbling gospel or a latent threat, these Goldenscapes are a window to a world without qualities that, with the end of capitalism and the fall of the gold standard turns these landscapes into monochromatic fields of meaningless architectural (dis)placement. . #reimaginingtheavantgarde #waithinktank #nathaliefrankowski #cruzgarcia #goldenscapes #artandarchitecture #londonexhibition #bettsproject @ Betts Project
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💥LAST DAYS💥. Re-Imagining the Avant-Garde . With: #AntFarm #PabloBronstein #MatthewButcher #PeterEisenman #SamJacob #DamjanJovanovic #OfficeKerstenGeersDavidvanSeveren #OfficeKovacs #PerryKulper, #JimenezLai #BureauSpectacular #Nemestudio #LukeCasparPearson #AldoRossi #Traumnovelle NeilSpiller #UrbanLab #WAI Thinktank #warehouseofarchitectureandresearch (WAR) .... . Exhibition runs until Saturday 21 December 2019 . . Wednesday to Friday 12–6pm, Saturday 12–5pm or by appointment . . Betts Project 100 Central Street, London EC1V 8AJ +44 (0)20 7250 1512 contact@bettsproject.com www.bettsproject.com
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