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Titre:
Geoffrey Smedley: Dissections

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The subject of Dissections is the mechanization of man. The book which accompanies the exhibition dissects photographically four metaphorical machines which have themselves been dissected. The project is a not a sequential narrative, but a series of brief notes, sometimes closely or sometimes distantly associated with the images gathered under the title Dissections . The hero is the mythic figure of Descartes' Clown ; a neurotic and insecure robot, though also intuitive, inquisitive and courageous. The clown undertakes an auto-autopsy hoping to find his organ of existence. The robot, like Descartes, needs to prove that he actually exists.

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Richard Henriquez : selected works 1964-2005

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Richard Henriquez is a major figure in Canadian architecture today. Born in Jamaica and educated at the University of Manitoba and MIT, and recently awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, he is the founding partner of Henriquez Partners, a firm recognized internationally for its design excellence. The winner of six Royal Architectural Institute of Canada/Governor General’s Awards and five Lieutenant Governor’s Awards, the firm, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, combines unique contemporary design with sensitivity to historical context and urban fabric.

Titre:
Piero en tête : sculptures de Geoffrey Smedley / Meditations on Piero: sculptures by Geoffrey Smedley

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Dans un traité sur la perspective écrit vers la fin de sa vie, Piero della Francesca tente d’établir les proportions mathématiques « idéales » de la tête humaine. Après des années de méditation créative à partir de ces dessins, Smedley a décidé d’en traduire concrètement le mystère en leur donnant une forme physique. Travaillant à la manière d’un architecte, il en a extrait la structure de ses sculptures. Sa pièce principale, The Numbers, est une méticuleuse représentation de plus d’un mètre de haut de la tête idéale de Piero della Francesca. In a treatise on perspective written towards the end of his life, Piero della Francesca attempted to determine the mathematically "ideal" proportions of the human head, basing his drawings on a belief in the cosmological significance of certain numbers and their geometrical relationships. After many years of creative meditation on these drawings, Smedley decided to translate their mystery into physical form, working the way an architect works to extract from them the structure of his sculptures. His principal piece, The Numbers, is a meticulous, four-foot high realization of Piero’s ideal head.