RAJA GROUP SUPPORTS ART

Kapel PDG of the RAJA Group opens ARCHI-SCULPTURE at Villa Datris.

DanièleKapel-Marcovici the soul of the RAJA-Danièle Marcovici Foundation and President and CEO of the Raja Group, Europe’s leading distributor of packaging to businesses, is a patron of the Villa Datris Foundation, created with architect Tristan Fourtine in 2010 to promote contemporary sculpture.

Since its inauguration in 2011, the Villa Datris Foundation proposes a new exhibition each year presenting a large number of French and international artists personally selected by the founders, regardless of art market trends.

From 14 May to 1 November 2015, Villa Datris will host the new exhibition ARCHI-SCULPTURE in homage to Tristane Fourtine.

ARCHI-SCULPTURE explores the interactions between architecture and sculpture, through the dialogue between these two universes of form that complement and enrich each other.

The eclectic exhibition brings together some one hundred works: models and prototypes of contemporary architects, sculptures and artists’ utopias.

The vocation of Villa Datris is to make art accessible and usable to all.

For this reason, access to ARCHI-SCULPTURE is free and the exhibition is lively, playful and surprising.

ARCHI-SCULPTURE ANIMA

The choice of the theme for the 2015 exhibition was a tribute to the founder, the architect Fourtine who died in January 2013, who

described sculpture as ‘la diversité des points de vue, de l’espace, du déplacement, du mouvement que l’art du volume induit’.

Consistent with the Foundation’s line promoting contemporary sculpture, ARCHI-SCULPTURE brings a new light to the mutual exchanges and influences of architecture and sculpture.

The arts of space and volume, architecture and sculpture share a fundamental reflection on three-dimensional relationships, the notions of interior and exterior, structure and content that go hand in hand with artistic flair.

The architect feeds on sculpture, both suspended between technical constraints and the perennial quest for harmony and innovation.

Pushed to its limits, the architectural work can turn into a sculpture in its own right.

On the other hand, sculpture draws great inspiration from the architectural artefact. It constructs and deconstructs by appropriating the forms and volumes of architecture.

At Villa Datris, architecture is present in all its forms, from utopia to futurist architecture, from the spatial city to organic architecture, offering a reflection on the quality of living, the social dimension of architecture and its integration into the environment and nature.

LIST OF ARTISTS

Among the architects exhibited: Le Corbusier, Claude Parent, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Sou Fujimoto, Antti Lovag, Odile Decq…

Recognised or emerging contemporary sculptors include: Etienne-Martin, André Bloc, Eduardo Chillida, Marino di Teana, Tadashi Kawamata, Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, Liam Gillick, François Morellet, Denis Pondruel, Sarah Oppenheimer, Annette Streyl, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Sarah Sze, Nicolas Schöffer, Betty Bui, Jean Denant…

Some artists will present works created especially for ARCHI-SCULPTURE such as Hap Tivey or Tilman.