Seed Magazine reviews "Transitory Objects", the latest exhibit at Vienna’s influential Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary gallery.
A new breed of architectural objects, inspired by theoretical science, is changing how we think about building and what counts as art. Seed Magazine
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these guys offer an interesting provocation, but where is the critical engagement with them? they are so softly handled -- they gurgle up some nonsense theoretical/scientific legitimation of the arbitrary and the aesthetic (diminishing both of their intrinsic value), and then get unflinchingly fawning coverage with the same "an artist saying it is validity enough" free-pass that the art world operates under.
I can't see meaningful connections between the declared highminded basis and the work. it looks like a bluff. appropriating techniques, technologies, algorithms, etc from other disciplines is the fast track for progress, yes, but what we produce with them has nothing to do with the originating discipline, let alone carrying any of the theoretical legitimacy of that originating discipline.
this stuff is to "theoretical science" what columns shaped like bones are to "the organic".
Beautiful objects, with compelling generative techniques and provocative aesthetic strategies.
Having said that, I do not think they have made a resonable argument that these objects represent any useful architectural solutions. I agree with subtect: where is the critical engagement?
"They are open, flexible systems that can be moved or modified with changes in a society’s needs or in the environment, and in that sense they are ecological, systems-based, and socially responsible."
Sounds wonderful. Now show me how. Take this form making, and use it to solve a messy, on the ground, real world problem.
my personal favorite is:
“I want to make a physicalized model of everything in the universe…. [I]t will be a superposed structure in the sense that it has multiple options contained within it at any given time and that it can be rebuilt.”
he says this straight-faced, and they nod approvingly without even a question, and pass it on to us, without any commentary...?
yes, the whole universe is a model. but i think it is suppose to be left unreplicated, no?
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