Instalación de una pieza escultórica de madera – Comunidades de El Cacalotepec
The French artist Xavier Veilhan installed a wooden piece sculpture. A sculpture in the cabins of the Cooperative Society of Ecotourism Services Playa El Cacalote.
This sculpture was built with local wood and produced in the workshops of the Casa Wabi Foundation, with the aim of opening a social dialogue around art between the artist and the community.
Log-Piece
Pieza escultórica (2016)
Madera local
150 x 35 x 35 cm
Pieza escultórica (2016)
Madera local
150 x 35 x 35 cm
France
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Xavier Veilhan’s sculptural interventions are bold and transfixing, while complementing existing architecture and altering how viewers look at their surroundings. His “Architectones” series pays tribute to Kasimir Malevich’s “Architectons,” three-dimensional models that blend architecture with philosophy. In “Architectones,” Veilhan installed sculptures in celebrated, modernist homes; each work was unique to the setting and placed in dialogue with the building’s architecture. A sixty-foot bust of Le Corbusier was set atop the architect’s Cité Radieuse in Marseille, for example. Through faceted, distorted shapes, Veilhan’s structures capture energy by revealing the movement surrounding them. In 2009, Veilhan’s work was displayed in the Palace of Versailles and its surrounding gardens, juxtaposing traditional architecture against minimalist, futurist-inspired sculpture, with the ultimate goal of enhancing the former.
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January – February 2016
