Le Corbusier
dal 19/6/2012 al 1/9/2012
Segnalato da
19/6/2012
Le Corbusier
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
"Le poeme de l'angle droit" consists of a long hand-written text and drawings, which are linked in a way that they explain each other and merge into a complex statement. In the exhibition the complete circle is shown with all its accompanying preliminary studies, paintings and documents in Germany for the first time.
In the course of seven years, from 1947 to 1953, Le Corbusier produced a
succession of lithographs that can be regarded as an artistic realization of his
conception of the world and at the same time as a kind of self portrait. Although
the work is thus given utmost importance, it received relatively little attention
for a long time, as the artist Corbusier was not met with as much interest as the
famous architect. Only recent research has decoded and interpreted the
cosmos of imagery and thoughts, stipulated in the architectural poem.
›Le poème de l’angle droit‹ (The poem of the right angle) consists of a long
hand-written text and drawings, which are linked in a way that they explain each
other and merge into a complex statement. The text is divided into seven
stanzas which correspond with 19 coloured lithographs. According to Le
Corbusier these lithographs should be arranged axisymmetrically in seven rows
in the form of a multi-chain cross above each other, so that they result in a
projection wall, which – in the style of orthodox sacred spaces – he referred to
as ›iconostasis‹. Thus the profane poem is elevated to a virtually religious
expression of the artist’s pantheistic world view. Each row is dedicated to a
topic: from the environment via the mental and physical elements to the right
angle, with which the human being establishes his own order.
In the exhibition the complete circle is shown with all its accompanying
preliminary studies, paintings and documents in Germany for the first time, thus
making Le Corbusier’s work and design process comprehensible. The central
point is the presentation of the ›iconostasis‹ in the form as it was predetermined
by him. As Le Corbusier claimed, his buildings were based on ›poetry‹ and were
only achieved due to is free artistic works, the cycle also provides an access to
the architectural works of the greatest architect of the 20th century.
The architectural poem was published in a limited edition of 250 copies by the
Paris publisher Editions Verve in 1955. For the exhibition a facsimile edition will
be issued with a new translation of the poem as well as an accompanying
volume with descriptive essays.
A project of the Architekturmuseum der TU München and the Círculo de Bellas
Artes, Madrid, in cooperation with the Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris.
Image: Le Corbusier. Le poème de l'angle droit. Poem of the Right Angle, 1955, Cover © FLC/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012
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Press preview: 20.06.2012, 11.00
Opening: 20.06.2012, 19.00
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