Eurotopie
By: commissaires = curators, Traumnovelle, Roxane Le Grelle
Contributors: Traumnovelle (Artist group); International Architectural Exhibition (16th : 2018 : Venice, Italy)
Publisher: Éditions de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Bruxelles
Language: fre
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9782930705378
Subjects: Exhibitions; Architecture and society; Politics and government; 20.10 art and society: general; European Union
Description: Eurotopie, the selected project for the Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale of 2018, will address the issues and challenges tackled by the European Union. Despite being the E.U's principal territorial, physical and symbolic anchorage, the European Quarter in Brussels seems in no way to contribute to a collective European identity. The relationship of the European Quarter with its host city, however, is ambiguous. According to the curators Traumnovelle and Roxane Le Grelle, Europe is the only great narrative which can effectively counter nationalism and extremism. With Eurotopie, they hope to arouse political commitment in European citizens and extend an invitation to pursue the construction of Europe as a political ideal as well as its anchorage in Brussels. They also address architects and space-makers in considering how the European democratic space can be constructed, and how it can cohabit with Brussels. Exhibition: Belgian Pavilion, 16th Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy (26.05. - 25.11.2018).
Notes: Catalog of Belgium's entry in the 16th International Architectural Exhibition, Venice, Italy, May 26 - November 25, 2018.

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