Month: August 2014

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Brian Dillon

Agnieszka Gratza

This interview with Brian Dillon appeared in Metropolis M on the eve of the summer show, Curiosity, at De Appel: Aurélien Froment, Pulmo Marina, 2010, © the artist. Courtesy of the artist, Marcelle Alix and Motive Gallery. Photos: Aurélien Froment Agnieszka Gratza: I was curious about the way you describe yourself in your bios these days. You know, the whole business of ‘writer and/or critic’, ‘based here and there’. Brian Dillon: I try to avoid the ‘based in’ because it suggests you spend your whole life jetting around. I suppose writing is the centre of it. In the past few … Continue reading Brian Dillon

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14th Venice Architecture Biennale

Agnieszka Gratza

This report from the German, Austrian and Swiss pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale was posted on the frieze d/e blog: German Pavilion, all images courtesy: la Biennale di Venezia; photographs: Andrea Avezzù   In an unprecedented move, the director of this year’s Venice architecture biennale, Rem Koolhaas, proposed a single, admittedly capacious theme for all 65 national pavilions to grapple with: ‘Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014’. The thesis behind this – with the fraught concept of ‘modernity’ at its heart – seemed to be the contention that over the last century the distinctions between national architectural styles, once pronounced, have given … Continue reading 14th Venice Architecture Biennale