Modernité Noire presents an outstanding collection of hand-crafted sculptures that both venerate and critically examine Le Corbusier’s designs from the 1920s. Cast in various metals, the collection consists of a limited series (20 iron and 20 bronze) of the architect’s most emblematic villas from his Purist period. Mr Michel Richard, director of the Fondation Le Corbusier, in Paris, said about the project:
C’est un bel oxymore de traiter le purisme de façon brutale…
Perhaps the time has come for a review of Modernity. Modern Architecture has remained culturally ethnocentric for many decades. Modernité Noire greatly values the experience of revisiting Le Corbusier's work. By challenging Modern paradigms, such as lightness, abstraction, prefabrication or transparency, the project presumes to respectfully broaden our vision of Modern times.
Architects, through their arrangements of form, produce an order which is a pure creation of their spirit; through their forms, they deeply affect our senses producing visual emotions; through the connections they conceive, they awaken in us profound echoes giving us an order whereby we feel at one with the world, stirring our hearts and minds; and this is when we experience the sense of beauty.
Le Corbusier, Vers une Architecture, 1923.
This collection has come to light with the kind permission of the Fondation Le Corbusier by the Modernité Noire design collective, Enric Llorach (architect and critic) and Roger Guillem (sculptor), in homage to the Swiss architect.
CREDITS.
Sculptor.- Roger Guillem.
Team.- Marta García and Angela Frawley.
Graphic Designer.- Andrea Gusi.
Modernité Noire also gives name to a design studio based in Barcelona and directed by Enric Llorach.
VILLA SAVOYE CAST IRON SERIES:
GG-25 Iron, 102x91x46 mm, 1.61 Kg, S: 1/234
Handmade in Cassà de la Selva, Girona
Edition number: MN-VS-RG-n/20
VILLA SAVOYE BRONZE SERIES:
RG-5 bronze, 102x91x46 mm, 1.87 Kg, S: 1/234
Handmade in Cassà de la Selva, Girona
Edition number: MN-VS-RG-n/20
Where can you find.- Caixaforum Barcelona, COAC (Jordi Capell), Less is Better Galeria de Arquitectura, (Spain) and Inter.Office in Osaka (Japan).
