Bertrand Lamarche, “La maquette, un objet modèle ? Entre art et architecture”
The publication “La maquette, un objet modèle ? Entre art et architecture” by Marie-Ange Brayer (Chief Curator, Design and Industrial Prospective, Mnam-Cci, Centre Pompidou. PhD in Art History) was published on April 9th, containing a note on Bertrand Lamarche’s work, The Fog Factory, 2005 – 2011: “In Bertrand Lamarche (1966), architecture is apprehended through the dystopia of the field of vision. The model is transformed into a vision machine, somewhere between Duchamp and Moholy-Nagy. In Auto-brouillard (2003), architecture is transformed into a poetic-transgressive mechanism in the manner of Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus (1914). The model redraws the entropic contours of an urban landscape. It has become an activator of physical phenomena, through the simulation of tornadoes, vortexes and fog. The model is paradigm-free here, no longer projecting anything, transformed into an atmospheric machine.”