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Gordon Matta-Clark - Conical Intersect

In this in-depth analysis, Peter Muir argues that Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect (1975) is emblematic of Henri Lefebvre’s understanding of art’s function in relation to urban space. (…)

Conical Intersect is a multi-media artwork, which involves the intersections of architecture, sculpture, film, and photography, as well as being a three-dimensional model that reflects aspects of urban, art, and architectural theory, along with a number of cultural and historiographic discourses which are still present and active.

Culture Class: Art, Creativity, Urbanism, Part I

Culture Class: Art, Creativity, Urbanism, Part II

Culture Class: Art, Creativity, Urbanism, Part III

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A Chapel in the Pampas 

Located in the Pampas plains, in the east of the province of Cordoba, Argentina, Capilla San Bernardo by Nicolás Campodónico rises in a small grove, originally occupied by a rural house and its yards, both dismantled in order to reuse their materials, especially its one-hundred-year-old bricks. The site does not have electricity or any other utilities; nature imposes its own conditions.

In the limit between the trees and the open country, the chapel´s volume opens up towards the sun, capturing the natural light of the sunset in the interior. Outside, a vertical and a horizontal poles are placed separately and projected towards the interior. As a result, every day all year round, the shadow of these, slides along the curved interior, finishing its tour overlapping with each other.

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