Atelier Marc Barani
Subtitle: tenir lieu = taking place
By: direction de l'ouvrage, Colin Lemoine
Contributors: Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Paris, France)
Publisher: Silvana editoriale
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Cinisello Balsamo, Milano
Language: fre; eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9788836642847
Subjects: Exhibitions; Architecture; History
Other titles: Tenir lieu
Description: By its weight, by its volume, by its breadth, by nature, architecture of any kind defies being exhibited. On the other hand, architecture reveals ? ideas, intentions, desires. Better still, Marc Barani?s architecture reveals itself, because it attempts and dares, it takes up challenges and ?moves towards its own risk? (René Char). Against gratuitous gestures, against neutral equators, against supreme transparency, Marc Barani creates scrupulously embodied forms, dedicated to the sacred and the secret. Bridges, cemeteries and dwellings elevate a landscape rather than just fitting into it. Here, architecture is an epiphany and the horizon is the masonry. Words, sounds, images are called upon to reveal the unpresentable, substitutes capable of expressing the voluptuousness and singularity of an architecture in absentia. In other words, and as in every work by Marc Barani, it is about perfectly taking place.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Paris, France, May 22-September 16, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in French with parallel English tranlsation.