Art Of The Day Weekly
#357 - from 25 September 2014 to 1 October 2014
The gardens at the Saint-Nazaire Submarine Base. DR
Gilles Clément, a certain idea of gardens
The public discovered Gilles Clément through his Citroën garden in Paris as well as by the one of the museum at quai Branly. His position is purposely iconoclastic, meaning he loves to show, for example, that globalisation is far from being a new fact and that it has shaped our vegetable environment. Fifteen years after his exhibition “Le Jardin planétaire” at the Villette, which was a milestone, he develops once again the concepts dear to his heart such as the « garden in movement » or «the symbiotic man», which bring forward the issue of wastelands, risks, time – values which are not so popular in our organised and pushy world. Aside from the drawings, the photos, models, the itinerary includes a reading room and a cabinet de curiosités, as the universe of Gilles Clément has been nourished by numerous travels, nearby and far away, by the most varied means, on foot, motorcycle or cargo ship.
• Toujours la vie invente, carte blanche à Gilles Clément, at the Ecole nationale d’architecture Paris-Val de Seine, from 30 Septembre to 25 Octobre 2014.