Projet d'architecture fainéante
Projet d'architecture fainéante is both a group of sculptures and a group of models which form the architectural project which François Curlet has been developing since 2003. The artist suggests building shelters or dwellings from the top and not from the bottom, thus proposing a quick and easy-to-build prototype of the habitat of the future. The four models presented on this trestle table are possible typologies for these different nomadic habitats, but more than a method of construction, this “lazy architecture” is also a principle: the artist effaces himself behind chance and the force of gravity, all-powerful creative principles that govern the different models’ soft forms. Laziness becomes the art of doing nothing (as suggested by the sleeping bag on the floor), or rather of letting it happen, since it is the fast-setting plaster used by François Curlet that, as it flows, creates the shapes and reliefs of these hybrid objects.
Text written by Marianne Tricoire as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
Biennale d'art contemporain de Rennes, Rennes (France)
from 27 Sep to 30 Nov 2014
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 13 Sep to 03 Nov 2007
Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)
from 25 Apr to 15 Aug 2007
Centre Culturel Français de Turin, Turin (Italie)
from 05 Mar to 07 Apr 2007