Irmel Kamp: Neues Bauen in Tel Aviv and Brussels
For over four decades Irmel Kamp has been photographing architecture, conducting long-term research projects focused on a single style or region. The current exhibition presents a selection from two of her most substantial bodies of work: Modern Architecture in Tel-Aviv 1930-1939, is the result of a five-year research encompassing more than 600 buildings, realized by Kamp between 1987-1993, prior to the large-scale preservation efforts of the city and to UNESCO鈥檚 recognition of it as a world heritage site in 2003; The second project, Les Ann茅es Trente, realized between 1996-1997, revolves around modern architecture of the 1930s in Brussels. Both compose an archeology of sorts of a local 鈥淚nternational Style鈥�. Rather than depicting 鈥渕achines for living in鈥� 鈥� Le Corbusier鈥檚 seminal maxim 鈥� the buildings in Irmel Kamp鈥檚 photographs are distinctly 鈥渓ived-in鈥� and not quite so mechanic, imbued with a sense of place and time and a poetics of presence.
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For over four decades Irmel Kamp has been photographing architecture, conducting long-term research projects focused on a single style or region. The current exhibition presents a selection from two of her most substantial bodies of work: Modern Architecture in Tel-Aviv 1930-1939, is the result of a five-year research encompassing more than 600 buildings, realized by Kamp between 1987-1993, prior to the large-scale preservation efforts of the city and to UNESCO鈥檚 recognition of it as a world heritage site in 2003; The second project, Les Ann茅es Trente, realized between 1996-1997, revolves around modern architecture of the 1930s in Brussels. Both compose an archeology of sorts of a local 鈥淚nternational Style鈥�. Rather than depicting 鈥渕achines for living in鈥� 鈥� Le Corbusier鈥檚 seminal maxim 鈥� the buildings in Irmel Kamp鈥檚 photographs are distinctly 鈥渓ived-in鈥� and not quite so mechanic, imbued with a sense of place and time and a poetics of presence.
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