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A tiny bur replete room in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni at the Venice Biennale pays homage to one of the giants of 20th century British
/ The Architectural Review
Oct 01, 2010
A tiny but replete room in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni at the Venice Biennale pays homage to one of the giants of 20th century British architecture: Cedric Price (1934-2003). The exhibition attempts to celebrate Price the communicator, the philosopher, the thinker, the observer of human nature.
Venice Venice, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Samantha Hardingham, grew from a series of recorded conversations between Obrist and Price. Among the encyclopedic array of subject matter covered, a specific reference to sketchbooks led Obrist to invite Hardingham to make a selection of previously unseen drawings from Price's personal notebooks, and to present earlier screen footage dating back to 1975. For Price, the notebook sketches 'serve as a personal reminder'; some are like the finest and funniest cartoons capturing an idea in a few lines, others show the working-out of issues of scale, logistics or composition.
The room also features an online project conceived at the department for exhibition design and curatorial practice at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. The website comprises hundreds of individually edited video clips taken from Obrist's recorded conversations and tagged according to keywords, which can be used to generate a live - albeit fictional - conversation between Price and the user.
http://huoarchive.hfg-karlsruhe.de
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Venice Venice, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Samantha Hardingham, grew from a series of recorded conversations between Obrist and Price. Among the encyclopedic array of subject matter covered, a specific reference to sketchbooks led Obrist to invite Hardingham to make a selection of previously unseen drawings from Price's personal notebooks, and to present earlier screen footage dating back to 1975. For Price, the notebook sketches 'serve as a personal reminder'; some are like the finest and funniest cartoons capturing an idea in a few lines, others show the working-out of issues of scale, logistics or composition.
The room also features an online project conceived at the department for exhibition design and curatorial practice at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. The website comprises hundreds of individually edited video clips taken from Obrist's recorded conversations and tagged according to keywords, which can be used to generate a live - albeit fictional - conversation between Price and the user.
http://huoarchive.hfg-karlsruhe.de
COPYRIGHT: Copyright Emap Limited Oct 2010. Provided by Proquest- CSA, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Only fair use as provided by the United States copyright law is permitted.
PROQUEST-CSA, LLC- MAKES NO WARRANTY REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF THE LICENSED MATERIALS OR ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
