“Contemporary art and landscape installations” and “An environmental approach to urban commissions” at the Centre for Architecture, Territories and Landscape (MATP) in Angers.
Tuesday 19 February 2009 at
7.30pm
In collaboration with Gilles Bruni
and alone since 2006, artist Marc Babarit has been pursuing
artistic research based on work in situ. He uses agriculture,
ecology, photography, architecture, and other forms of expression
to reveal insights into the often difficult places where he works
(derelict land, abandoned public and private sites). The
processes of temporary reclamation and possession by landscape of
the site are an integral part of his landscape
installations.
Tuesday 24 February 2009, 6pm to
7.30pm
Management of environmental issues
is now at the heart of urban commissions, with new neighbourhoods
having to factor in a range of sustainable development
considerations. Constraints or useful levers for the quality of
urban layouts? Can we use environmental challenges as a way of
improving urban planning?