Leonor Antunes
villa, how to use
concept Leonor Antunes ; with essays by Maria Berman, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Ricardo Nicolau, Dieter Roelstraete, Doris von Drathen

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Author(s)

Maria Berman, Nuria Enguita May, Ricardo Nicolau, Dieter Roelstraete, Doris von Drathen

Editor(s)

Leonor Antunes

Publication

Berlin ; Porto : Bom Dia Boa Ntarde Boa Noite Verlag ; Fundacao de Serralves, 2013

Scope

128 Pages, illustrated, 25 cm.

ISBN

9783943514193

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The first monograph to be published on the work of Leonor Antunes, villa, how to use is released in association with the exhibition Antunes conceived for the Serralves Villa in 2011.Dieter Roelstraete highlights the speculative concerns that, under the blanket term architecture, Antunes shares with the three most important German-speaking philosophers of the twentieth century (Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Adorno): identity and belonging, homeliness and uprootedness, measures and proportion, space and balance. Taking the case study of Manhattan’s Park Avenue after WWII, Maria Berman examines the theme of duplication in architecture. Doris van Drathen finds in Leonor Antunes’ work the use of “measurement” as a tool of grasping the world. Nuria Enguita Mayo addresses the problems of duplication, faktura and restriction, while Ricardo Nicolau reflects on the dialogue of the artist with the architecture of the Serralves Villa and the memory of other buildings from the history of modernism.

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Person as subject

Leonor Antunes

Keywords

architecture , installation , sculpture , design

Location

Cabinet 1 - 2: Kunstenaars

Remarks

Incl. bibliography.