Text by Stéphanie Bru
A common idea would have it that painting is the laboratory of architecture. The glorious example of Le Corbusier who painted every morning before returning to his office in the afternoon lends credit to this idea. On the canvas, one is free to search.
On the plans, one is forced to find. The painter is alone in front of his flat rectangle. The architect must compose in three dimensions with an existing context and many constraints. 2D versus 3D, solitude of the creator versus team negotiation. Are these oppositions so well founded? There is a place where the two disciplines find a meeting point. Facing the canvas or in the heart of a building, it is the light that decides! The salutary back and forth between the two practices promises a reciprocal airing, reinjecting spatiality into the surface of painting, and pictoriality into the architectural space.