A recurring theme in the artist’s art is sports, with a particular interest in basketball
In 2013, French designer Ora Ito inaugurated a maker space on the roof of Le Corbusier’s La Cité Radieuse in Marseille; the open-air art center invites an artist every summer to exhibit their work, both indoors and outdoors. This year, MAMO (Marseille Modulor) presents “Le Modulor du Basketball”, a site-specific project in collaboration with New York artist Daniel Arsham and Gallerie Perrotin.
With one foot in art and the other in architecture and performance, Daniel Arsham explores concepts of history in his art, questioning through the “lens of destruction” our perception of the past and the future. Through environments with corroded walls and stairs leading to nowhere as well as everyday objects that look as if they have been found in the future, many years later, the artist plays with both time and space.
A recurring theme in the artist’s art is sports, with a particular interest in basketball. With the project “Le Modulor du Basketball” at MAMO, Arsham pays homage to Le Corbusier, combining sports and history in a space that historically functioned as a gym. His intervention transformed the upper floor of the building into a gym-inspired art space, with works that mix the visual language of the renowned architect with the universe of basketball
On the ‘court’ floor, the pastel yellows and blues seen in Le Corbusier’s 1955 collection of paintings and texts ‘Le Poème de L’Angle Droit’, along with the original sun detail, transformed into representations of basketball that they are found on banners, a flag, players’ uniforms and on the field itself
The site-specific project will be hosted at MAMO until September 25th.
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