alain bublex
The exhibition brings together three works: a «Projet en chantier» designed for Tours, the Service Car, exhibited for the first time in France and Glooscap, the first realization of Alain Bublex who brought in the field of art this former automobile designer.
In 1985, Alain Bublex posed the first features of an imaginary city. «Glooscap» has therefore expanded to exist today through a proliferation of documentation that traces its historical, urban, industrial or economic developments. Located precisely in Canada, Glooscap was designed on the model of the major cities of North America. It is reconstructed backwards, taking into account its geographical context and the imperatives of a History now known. Its architects existed, its urbanism is the fruit of the dominant theories of their epochs: Glooscap, in its smallest details, could have existed.
“Project under construction. RN 10 Tours, France” 2000 (produced by the Agence d’artistes), is part of a series of ongoing projects for the cities of Lyon and Paris. It confronts the question of utopia by proposing radical and authoritarian solutions to current urban problems, applied to real sites. The artist exhibits here the beginnings of a project to develop the main artery of Tours, the RN10, crossing the heart of the city. A practical proposal aimed at dissociating traffic and activity zones, the bridge is also and above all the instrument of such a radical transformation of the landscape that it leads to rethinking our whole relationship with the city and its evolution. The service car (1999) is linked to “Glooscap”: Alain Bublex travelled to North America in 1994 to continue building his fictional city. To drive around and take pictures, he buys a car that he carries the Glooscap logos. Five years later, he developed this idea with a new service car with his own vehicle equipped with elements making it more functional for outdoor shooting: reflective strips, safety lights, roof shooting platform… it ends up looking like a public works service vehicle. A functional tool that can contaminate the real landscape, the Service Car catalyzes the whole problem of photography as an act attesting to a situation experienced in front of the photographed subject.
Extract from press release – 2000
alain bublex
The artist was born in 1961 in Lyon, France, and now lives and works between Lyon and Paris.
Since the 1990’s, Alain Bublex has been developing gigantic fictions, deeply anchored in reality.
Urbanist, utopist, researcher, and traveller, the artist produces artworks that are meant to be regarded as projects more than objects. They take tangible form through an iconography and a documentation that is as realistic as abundant.
By using a great variety of mediums, his projects hover between fact and fiction, to reinvent the scenery, the city or architecture in general.
Alain Bublex’s productions are also the result of a reflection on time, and history. They recreate the aesthetic canons and myths of the great adventure that is Modernity.
based on a city’s history, architecture, or aerodynamism, his evolving constructions deal with time constraints. They recreate the aesthetic canons and myths of the great adventure that is Modernity.
Alain Bublex’s productions are also the result of a reflection on time, and history. They recreate the aesthetic canons and myths of the great adventure that is Modernity.
based on a city’s history, architecture, or aerodynamism, his evolving constructions deal with time constraints.
The exhibition brings together three works: a «Projet en chantier» designed for Tours, the Service Car, exhibited for the first time in France and Glooscap, the first realization of Alain Bublex who brought in the field of art this former automobile designer.
In 1985, Alain Bublex posed the first features of an imaginary city. «Glooscap» has therefore expanded to exist today through a proliferation of documentation that traces its historical, urban, industrial or economic developments. Located precisely in Canada, Glooscap was designed on the model of the major cities of North America. It is reconstructed backwards, taking into account its geographical context and the imperatives of a History now known. Its architects existed, its urbanism is the fruit of the dominant theories of their epochs: Glooscap, in its smallest details, could have existed.
“Project under construction. RN 10 Tours, France” 2000 (produced by the Agence d’artistes), is part of a series of ongoing projects for the cities of Lyon and Paris. It confronts the question of utopia by proposing radical and authoritarian solutions to current urban problems, applied to real sites. The artist exhibits here the beginnings of a project to develop the main artery of Tours, the RN10, crossing the heart of the city. A practical proposal aimed at dissociating traffic and activity zones, the bridge is also and above all the instrument of such a radical transformation of the landscape that it leads to rethinking our whole relationship with the city and its evolution. The service car (1999) is linked to “Glooscap”: Alain Bublex travelled to North America in 1994 to continue building his fictional city. To drive around and take pictures, he buys a car that he carries the Glooscap logos. Five years later, he developed this idea with a new service car with his own vehicle equipped with elements making it more functional for outdoor shooting: reflective strips, safety lights, roof shooting platform… it ends up looking like a public works service vehicle. A functional tool that can contaminate the real landscape, the Service Car catalyzes the whole problem of photography as an act attesting to a situation experienced in front of the photographed subject.
Extract from press release – 2000
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