photocredits: Pelle De Brabander

Cut Down Build Up

Dimitri Vangrunderbeek, Thierry Lagrange, Hans Demeulenaere

15.11 – 24.11 2024

book launch and exhibition​ at CONVENT Space for Contemporary Art, Ghent.

​A book blending Art & Architecture by Dimitri Vangrunderbeek, Thierry Lagrange, and Hans Demeulenaere. ​Cut Down Build Up explores a creative process between two visual artists and an architect, focusing on the relation between abstraction and architecture. Rather than taking a traditional academic approach, these three creators engage in an iterative process of anticipation, reaction, and creation.They exchange ideas and works, leading to three unique explorative and productive dialogues.Abstraction, a common concept in visual arts, is less frequently associated with architecture. The interactions between the artists (Dimitri Vangrunderbeek and Hans Demeulenaere) and the architect (Thierry Lagrange) result in new spatial insights and deepen the understanding of abstraction. These insights are embedded in the creations themselves and in the dynamic exchanges between the participants.The book and its dialogues are an invitation towards the viewer to fully experience and appreciate the handling of abstraction within the context of architecture and visual arts.

Publication

Cut Down Build Up – On Abstraction

Author: Thierry Lagrange, Dimitri Vangrunderbeek, Hans Demeulenaere, Jolien Naeyaert

English, 144 p., 210 x 280 mm, softcover

Design: Studio Luc Derycke, Viktor Van den Braembussche

Publisher: MER. Books, Art imprint of Borgerhoff & Lamberigts

ISBN/EAN: 9789464946215