Book • 11-12 MAY
Hommage à Alexander Calder by Arne Quinze
11-12 May 2022
IE Tower: P.º de la Castellana, 259E (Torre Caleido) 28046 Madrid
To celebrate the renovations to the Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art (MAMAC) in Nice, Gilbert Perlein, Chief Curator and Director of the MAMAC, invited contemporary artist Arne Quinze to make a public art intervention. Quinze created a wooden sculpture, titled 'Hommage à Alexander Calder', which was inaugurated on 19 April and can be visited until 27 October.
Evoking communication and social interaction is Quinze’s biggest artistic driving force. This large-scale construction aims to evoke a dialogue between the museum’s architecture, the city and its public. Composed of natural wood planks in orange and white, the installation is over 70 metres long and 12 metres high. The organic character of the sculpture evokes feelings of smallness compared to the grandness of nature. Despite man’s desire to control it, nature eventually takes over. Ecology is a fundamental concept in the work of the artist, who invites the viewer to adopt a humble attitude towards nature. He makes a point of only using PEFC-certified wood, guaranteeing sustainable forest management.
Earlier this year, we published a book on two of Quinze’s previous art installations: My Secret Garden and Rock Strangers. Read more about it here.
All photos courtesy of Arne Quinze.
PROGRAM
11 MAY
10:00
Robert Thiemann
WELCOME
The ambitions of The Next Space
10:15
Juan Prego
Introducing Design Thinking
Our lead facilitator pictures the two-day journey
10:30
Kick-off
11:00
Talk 1 - Jenny Lee
People first
Why homes should be designed with people to make them sanctuaries for people
11:30
Miguel Oliveira (pCon)
Think, visualize, order
How software can support interior designers and architects to make the most of their creative design process by saving time to specify furnishings
11:45
Make-a-thon
Talk 2 - 13:00
Jaime Gonzalo
Seamless convenience
How tech can make residences more responsive to changing needs and circumstances
13:30
Gudy Herder (Eclectic Trends)
Leave No Trace
A hands-on introduction to material trends: how to make spaces tactile, inhabitable and future-proof?
14:00
Lunch at IE Tower
15:00
WOW concept Madrid
Site visit
16:30
Roca Gallery Madrid
Site visit
16:45
Talk 3 - Cara Eckholm: (Nabr)
Revolutionizing Ownership
Can the process of customizing, financing and purchasing a home be similar to buying a car – including post-purchase upgrades through an app?
17:15
Talk 4 - Lekshmy Parameswaran and László Herczeg
Caring communities
How our homes can empower us to connect, self-organise and care for each other as we live, work and age
17:45
Make-a-thon (continued)
19:30
Cocktail and day closing at Roca Gallery
12 MAY
09:30
Talk 5 - Beatriz Jacoste
Transformative food
How a revolution in food production will transform the way we design habitats
10:15
Make-a-thon (continued)
12:00
Talk 6 - Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño
Adaptive architecture
Why spatial fluidity and ambiguity can make houses future-ready