This exhibition establishes a dialogue between the work of these two geniuses based on painting and audiovisuals. Paintings, drawings and sketches by Bea Sarrias portray some of his best-known houses both in Barcelona and in Brussels. And a documentary piece by Morrosko Vila-San-Juan offers the context through various filming and interviews with architects (such as the Belgian Bruno Erpicum and the Spanish Óscar Tusquets) and owners of some of the houses, who explain their history and the experience of inhabiting an iconic house.
Two universes, two ways of understanding light, time and space: Coderch and De Koninck. Both architects and designers worked for the bourgeoisie of their time and created an aesthetic and an imaginary of consumer society and daily life that has survived to this day. Although they belong to different generations, Coderch (1913-1984) and De Koninck (1896-1984), both have left their mark and their work is admired and studied today.
De Koninck is considered the best interwar Belgian architect and Coderch stood out in postwar Spain as the architect of modernity. His works have been revalued and vindicated over time. Both rationalists, both analyzed and understood very well the society in which they lived and its needs. And both transcended with their works. José Antonio Coderch in Barcelona and the Mediterranean coast and Louis Herman De Koninck in Brussels and surroundings.
Bea Sarrias and Morrosko Vila-San-Juan have long been developing the project and painting and filming iconic architecture. Last July they carried out an artistic residency in LaVallée (Brussels), thanks to the Reopening Boxes program of the Open Earth Foundation, and have developed this new artistic project with the support of Spain Culture (Embassy of Spain in Brussels) and the gallery Martin's Atelier.
Two universes, two ways of understanding light, time and space: Coderch and De Koninck. Both architects and designers worked for the bourgeoisie of their time and created an aesthetic and an imaginary of consumer society and daily life that has survived to this day. Although they belong to different generations, Coderch (1913-1984) and De Koninck (1896-1984), both have left their mark and their work is admired and studied today.
De Koninck is considered the best interwar Belgian architect and Coderch stood out in postwar Spain as the architect of modernity. His works have been revalued and vindicated over time. Both rationalists, both analyzed and understood very well the society in which they lived and its needs. And both transcended with their works. José Antonio Coderch in Barcelona and the Mediterranean coast and Louis Herman De Koninck in Brussels and surroundings.
Bea Sarrias and Morrosko Vila-San-Juan have long been developing the project and painting and filming iconic architecture. Last July they carried out an artistic residency in LaVallée (Brussels), thanks to the Reopening Boxes program of the Open Earth Foundation, and have developed this new artistic project with the support of Spain Culture (Embassy of Spain in Brussels) and the gallery Martin's Atelier.
