Wim Cuyvers: Res Nullius
Wim Cuyvers
Masereel, 2025
€39,95
RES NULLIUS is about Le Montavoies, the site in France where Belgian architect/artist Wim Cuyvers (born 1958) has been working for almost twenty years. The book consists of a collection of two hundred landscape photographs, an axonometric perspective of the site, and a number of texts surrounding the photographs. These texts are like leaflets, instructions, lists to remember: the banal things of life, intended to avoid pathetic projections onto the site. In the book, Cuyvers further develops the proposition that architecture is those spaces that lead us outdoors, rather than sheltering interior spaces.
However, much has changed in recent years: climate change is having a major impact on the site. Ecological forest management will have to adopt very different approaches than before. And finally, there is the observation that we suddenly live in a connected world, that we are subject to a connected condition. Cuyvers argues that the connected condition makes us always “inside.” With this book, he therefore announces the end of architecture (as he defined it). Le Montavoies is a danse macabre with the dying medium of the art of space. IN DUTCH & FRENCH!
ISBN: 9789492707055
