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In his latest project, Nicolas Grospierre draws from a fictitious tale describing a swimming pool, freely suspended in water. The idea for the project is based on a story by Rem Koolhaas, a Dutch architectural theorist and urbanist titled "Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan" published in 1978..
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Nicolas Grospierre, "K-POOL and Co.", photo: press release
In his latest project, Nicolas Grospierre; a devoted connoisseur of architectural photography whose main focus is Late Modernism and Brutalist architectural styles, draws from a fictitious tale describing a swimming pool, freely suspended in water
The idea for the artist's latest photography project is based on a story by Rem Koolhaas, a Dutch architectural theorist and urbanist titled Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan published in 1978. In 1923 Moscow, an unknown student, breathes life into the idea by presenting finished blueprints of the pool. An unexpected yet peculiar regularity is discovered while working on the prototype - synchronised swimmers are able to set it in reverse motion, thus turning the pool into a ship, drifting in any chosen direction. The omnipresence of Stalin's regime and its sinister atmosphere forces the synchronised - architects to flee using the floating pool. The journey comes to climax in 1976, when after forty years they reach New York City.
Based on Kollhaas' tale, Grospierre creates an isometric photomontage which becomes the living image of the floating pool. Serving as integral components of the montage were photographs of a New York City pool. Complementing the exhibition is a series of photographs depicting Modernistic buildings from the former Soviet Union. By setting the Utopian pool against the realism of the Modernistic architecture of the former Soviet Union, Grospierre achieves a contrast of fiction and truth within architecture.
Curator: Witold Kanicki
The exhibition runs between April 18, 2011 - May 22, 2011.
Galeria Fotografii "pf"
Centrum Kultury "Zamek"
ul. Św. Marcin 80/82, 61-809 Poznań
Director: Maciej Szymanowicz
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Source: press materials