| Ungebautes, 2008 |
Plaster strips, extruded polystyrene
3-week project, open to public participation
Production: FRAC Alsace
Curator: Olivier Grasser
Collection: Frac Alsace (model)
"For his exhibition at the Frac Alsace, Jan Kopp has conceived a project of urban and architectural utopia: the collective construction of an ephemeral city, a metaphor for a city of desires and the imaginary. This exhibition is a logical continuation of partnerships with choreographers such as Marco Berrettini / Melk Prod, Alain Buffard, Loïc Touzé (...) and Xavier Leroy. With these artists, Jan Kopp has reflected on the conditions of the show, on the relationship between the temporalities of the body in movement and the plastic device, as well as on the relationship of the body to space. Conceived on the scale of the Frac's exhibition room, Ungebautes is a suspended sculpture, made of assembled polystyrene logs, monumental and light. More than a closed and rigid form, it presents itself as an openwork structure whose assembly reveals a diversity of rhythms and decisions resulting in an autonomous totality. A distant echo of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, it is the metaphor of an open city, without opacity and organic, shrouded in white smoke and drained by corridors and rooms. The wandering through these meanders solicits from the visitor-actor the activation of all his consciousness and invites him to permanently recompose his point of view."— Olivier Grasser, text for the exhibition Ungebautes, Frac Alsace, 2008
3-week project, open to public participation
Production: FRAC Alsace
Curator: Olivier Grasser
Collection: Frac Alsace (model)
"For his exhibition at the Frac Alsace, Jan Kopp has conceived a project of urban and architectural utopia: the collective construction of an ephemeral city, a metaphor for a city of desires and the imaginary. This exhibition is a logical continuation of partnerships with choreographers such as Marco Berrettini / Melk Prod, Alain Buffard, Loïc Touzé (...) and Xavier Leroy. With these artists, Jan Kopp has reflected on the conditions of the show, on the relationship between the temporalities of the body in movement and the plastic device, as well as on the relationship of the body to space. Conceived on the scale of the Frac's exhibition room, Ungebautes is a suspended sculpture, made of assembled polystyrene logs, monumental and light. More than a closed and rigid form, it presents itself as an openwork structure whose assembly reveals a diversity of rhythms and decisions resulting in an autonomous totality. A distant echo of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, it is the metaphor of an open city, without opacity and organic, shrouded in white smoke and drained by corridors and rooms. The wandering through these meanders solicits from the visitor-actor the activation of all his consciousness and invites him to permanently recompose his point of view."— Olivier Grasser, text for the exhibition Ungebautes, Frac Alsace, 2008
| View of the construction |