dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: französisch (fre/fra/fr)
künstler/in: Le Corbusiertitel: Peinture du silencejahr: adresse: Cité Universitaire, Pavillon Suisse, 7 Boulevard Jourdan, Paris, France
+: En 1932, à l'occasion de la construction du pavillon, Le Corbusier appliquait un décor photographique au mur ou se trouve maintenant la peinture murale. Le photocollage à été détruit en 1949.
«For murals, a more passive role was found to be appropriate. Instead of 'radiating' in front of blank walls, thus dominating the architectural composition, the mural ought to work as a 'background'. The house of his friend Jean Badovici at Cap Martin functioned as a testing ground in this context. For a number of murals painted there, Le Corbusier is said to have chosen locations where architecturally speaking 'nothing happened'. The same was true of the large mural in the Swiss Pavilion at the Cité universitaire in Paris. Its placement in a music and reading room adjacent to the lobby, so that it did not interfere with the organization of the architectural spaces, once again suggests a dialogue among the arts that is based on a play of potentially open-ended, flexible combinations – a sort of bricolage of different art forms – rather than on hierarchy and subordination.»