The exhibition on the work of Francis Kéré will be at the ICO Museum in Madrid from October 3, 2018 to January 20, 2019. In it, you can see many of the projects of the Burkinabé architect and even go through a reduced reproduction of the Pavilion of the Serpentine Gallery of 2017.
The exhibition 'Francis Kéré. Primary Elements', has been inaugurated in the ICO Museum. Curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano and organized by the ICO Foundation.
Gloria Peñafiel, director of the ICO Foundation, has affirmed:
The exhibition 'Francis Kéré. Primary Elements', has been inaugurated in the ICO Museum. Curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano and organized by the ICO Foundation.
Gloria Peñafiel, director of the ICO Foundation, has affirmed:
"Francis Kéré is a magnificent architect whose work presents an extreme social burden and a very deep bond with his country. We are very proud to have him here and to show you this exhibition, one of the most ambitious assemblies we have done in the museum."
For his part, Commissioner Luis Fenández-Galiano said:
"Francis Kéré is not here because he is the best African architect, nor because his life has been the embodiment of overcoming and an example for our young people, nor because he has such strong ties narrow with Spain, the fundamental reason is that it makes an architecture based on elementary principles that is universal".
Francis Kéré concluded:
"Architecture is at the service of humanity. Building a building is a team effort. When I raised the school from my village, I implored all the inhabitants. Architecture is also emotion: what you transmit with what you build. And it must be realistic: I use the materials that I have at hand, mud, water, wood. "
About the exhibition
The thesis that structures the entire exhibition relates the work of Kéré with the primary elements of Architecture designed by the German architect and scholar Gottfried Semper in the 19th century: the stereotomic floor, the tectonic roof and the textile wall.
These "primary elements" have been built on a real scale in the ICO Museum with the same techniques used by Kéré in their buildings. The visitor will find a textile wall made with fabrics brought from Burkina Faso; a concrete platform; a wooden platform (reproducing the Louisiana Canopy made by Kéré at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, in 2015); a reduced reproduction of the Pavilion of the Serpentine Gallery built in London in 2017; and a wall and an adobe platform built by the students of the "Architecture with Earth" Workshop, which took place in Boceguillas (Segovia), last July, and was specifically organized on the occasion of this exhibition by the ICO Foundation, the Center for Research in Traditional Architecture (CIAT), the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), the General Foundation of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and the City Council of Boceguillas.
In addition, the workspace of the Kéré Architecture studio in Berlin is reproduced, with various samples of construction materials and working models selected from the workshop itself, which are part of the daily work process of the study.
All these elements are structured around an exhibition that covers the architect's life path and where 27 projects and six artistic installations carried out in three different continents can be known in depth.
The thesis that structures the entire exhibition relates the work of Kéré with the primary elements of Architecture designed by the German architect and scholar Gottfried Semper in the 19th century: the stereotomic floor, the tectonic roof and the textile wall.
These "primary elements" have been built on a real scale in the ICO Museum with the same techniques used by Kéré in their buildings. The visitor will find a textile wall made with fabrics brought from Burkina Faso; a concrete platform; a wooden platform (reproducing the Louisiana Canopy made by Kéré at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, in 2015); a reduced reproduction of the Pavilion of the Serpentine Gallery built in London in 2017; and a wall and an adobe platform built by the students of the "Architecture with Earth" Workshop, which took place in Boceguillas (Segovia), last July, and was specifically organized on the occasion of this exhibition by the ICO Foundation, the Center for Research in Traditional Architecture (CIAT), the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), the General Foundation of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and the City Council of Boceguillas.
In addition, the workspace of the Kéré Architecture studio in Berlin is reproduced, with various samples of construction materials and working models selected from the workshop itself, which are part of the daily work process of the study.
All these elements are structured around an exhibition that covers the architect's life path and where 27 projects and six artistic installations carried out in three different continents can be known in depth.
