Exhibitions
Gaspar Libedinsky | Kunstformen der Natur
Date and place
Place: Praxis BA
Start Date: August 02 2018
End Date: September 15 2018
Description
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was a German naturalist and philosopher who popularized the work of Charles Darwin, creating new terms such as “ecology.”
He is considered one of the great illustrators of the natural world of the 19th century.
Kunstformen der Natur (“Artistic Forms of Nature” (1904)) is his book of 100 lithographs depicting various types of living organisms, many of which were first described by Haeckel himself.
The book places special focus on its contributions to the study of marine invertebrates, such as jellyfish and sponges.
Kunstformen der Natur influenced the art, architecture and design of the early 20th century, linking science and art.
Under the same title, Gaspar Libedinsky presents his ‘pictorial work’.
This series of 10 plates takes the domestic brush as a construction module.
A progression of precise physical operations – compression, tension, rotation – generate the pictorial work.
Each brush is a brushstroke.
The styling of its colorful synthetic bristles expresses a diversity of plastic intentions.
These pictorial compositions capture an explosive universe of emotions that refer to the wildest nature: that which has yet to be discovered.
Author: Gaspar Libedinsky
Gaspar Libedinsky Studio 2018: Robert Peyote Paredes, Andrea Napolitano, Luli Capitanich, Flor Hamudis, Julián Cúneo, Hernán Gimenez, Luisina Galarza, Juan Camilo Kleinerman, Carolina Galvagni, Flavia Canelo, Eliana Ausa, Carolina Meligrana, Martín Truffat, Roger Marín, Roxana Scorcelli, Iván Savorgnan, Nacho Fabio, Victoria Brunetta.
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Gaspar Libedinsky (Buenos Aires, 1976) is a visual artist, architect and curator.
His work operates in public and private space mediating between the urban scale and the intimacy of the body.
He studied at the Architectural Association (AA) in London where he was awarded the Runner-Up Part 1 Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1999, the highest award for students in the United Kingdom.
He worked for the studio of Rem Koolhaas/OMA in Rotterdam and for Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York as designer of the new High Line park in Manhattan.
Gaspar Libedinsky is a professor at Harvard (USA), at the Architectural Association (AA) and at the University of San Andrés in Buenos Aires.
As an artist he was awarded the Kuitca/UTDT Scholarship 2010-11, the most prestigious program for artists in Argentina led by Guillermo Kuitca.
His work has been published and exhibited internationally.
In 2013 Gaspar Libedinsky served as curator of urban interventions for ‘Draft Urbanism’ – Biennial of the Americas in Denver (Colorado, USA).
As in a Renaissance atelier, from Gaspar Libedinsky’s workshop, minimal works on the scale of a pair of slippers (such as his work ‘Architecture for the Body’) or monumental works such as the Buenos Aires obelisk (and his project to make it) come out processed with the same rigor. scalable).
Gaspar Libedinsky lives and works in Buenos Aires.
