ANDRE PUTMAN AT CAPC BY HEINZ PETER KNES
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A tribute, through a visual presentation by the German photographer Heinz Peter Knes, to the famous designer and interior architect Andrée Putman (1925-2013), whose design of the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, transformed into a unique total work of art more than 20 years ago, constitutes one…
A tribute, through a visual presentation by the German photographer Heinz Peter Knes, to the famous designer and interior architect Andrée Putman (1925-2013), whose design of the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, transformed into a unique total work of art more than 20 years ago, constitutes one of the most ambitious and accomplished projects of her career and a milestone in the history of design.
The development of the CAPC museum by Andrée Putman (1983/1990), an ambitious project carried out over more than ten years, was a landmark. It is still considered to this day a model of integration and stands as the result of a fruitful conjunction between a centuries-old architecture (L'Entrepôt Lainé) and a contemporary production context (the CAPC museum), thus meeting the specific needs of a cultural life project.
Taking into account all the spaces and activities of the CAPC Museum, Andrée Putman imposed both a radical artistic style and a veritable way of life within this exceptional context, developing a powerful and coherent vision, a total work of art unique in the world. For the CAPC Museum, Andrée Putman offered a rich vocabulary comprised of numerous specific editions and re-editions demonstrating her commitment to designers of various generations (Mallet-Stevens armchairs, benches, and chairs; Mariano Fortuny lamp, etc.), as well as multiple creations she designed herself, which remain unique pieces (the museum's reception desk, drawer pulls, the director's desk, writing chairs, screens with lecterns, Japanese pendant lights, tilting tabletops for the library, etc.). The book that the CAPC has dedicated to Andrée Putman aims to pay tribute to and echo the ambition of this project and its visual scope. The book provides access to a vast catalog of forms little known to the general public.
To capture this richness and move beyond the utopian vision presented by archival images from the 1990s, a new photographic perspective was needed, one that could reconcile a methodical inventory of Putman's artistic expression with the poetry of its forms. This is the challenge taken up by the German photographer Heinz Peter Knes, whose images at the heart of this book, more than 20 years later, document the evolution and development of Andrée Putman's visual language in light of the changing environment over time, thus creating a visual dialectic between the lifestyle proposed and the lifestyle produced.
Taking into account all the spaces and activities of the CAPC Museum, Andrée Putman imposed both a radical artistic style and a veritable way of life within this exceptional context, developing a powerful and coherent vision, a total work of art unique in the world. For the CAPC Museum, Andrée Putman offered a rich vocabulary comprised of numerous specific editions and re-editions demonstrating her commitment to designers of various generations (Mallet-Stevens armchairs, benches, and chairs; Mariano Fortuny lamp, etc.), as well as multiple creations she designed herself, which remain unique pieces (the museum's reception desk, drawer pulls, the director's desk, writing chairs, screens with lecterns, Japanese pendant lights, tilting tabletops for the library, etc.). The book that the CAPC has dedicated to Andrée Putman aims to pay tribute to and echo the ambition of this project and its visual scope. The book provides access to a vast catalog of forms little known to the general public.
To capture this richness and move beyond the utopian vision presented by archival images from the 1990s, a new photographic perspective was needed, one that could reconcile a methodical inventory of Putman's artistic expression with the poetry of its forms. This is the challenge taken up by the German photographer Heinz Peter Knes, whose images at the heart of this book, more than 20 years later, document the evolution and development of Andrée Putman's visual language in light of the changing environment over time, thus creating a visual dialectic between the lifestyle proposed and the lifestyle produced.
Publisher: CAPC Museum of Art Bordeaux
Weight: 0.7 kg
Dimensions: 20.4 x 1 x 30 cm
Language: English/French