Events

• Architectural Association School of Architecture

  08 Oct – 31 Oct 2007 London (UK)
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• • Radim Pesko & James Goggin

    Wed 24 Oct 18.00 James Goggin & Radim Peško

    Forms of Inquiry contributors Radim Pesko and James Goggin presented recent work centered around their respective ‘inquiries’ and projects included in the FOI exhibition. The talk was held in the crowded FOI Reading Room in conversation with Zak Kyes. Goggin and Pesko’s diverse contributions highlight the convergence of colour, film and fiction within graphic and architectural space.

    James Goggin presented his contribution to Forms of Inquiry in lecture format, showing colour images used in his A0 print (cut and bound into a 32 page black and white magazine). Goggin’s inquiry into colour and architecture presented leaps of reference and supposition from Ellsworth Kelly’s proposal for Ground Zero, to similar thinking from Tadao Ando, John Baldessari and Michael Sorkin, to Mondrian, Yves Klein, Pantone, and corporate colours. The links and contrasts between colour as spiritual void and the codification (and commodification) of colour mirror Ground Zero’s dichotomy of memorial and centre of commerce.

    Before the talk, Radim Pesko happened to show his colour-switching screensaver inspired by the flashing colour accompaniment to Beethoven in ‘Clockwork’. The screen saver in parallel to Goggin’s projection providing coincidental colour synchronicities with particular slides. Later Pesko presented a selection of projects, found images and references from the past four years. United by an interest in typographic forms, these projects include the Boijmans typeface, based on the ‘68 Mexico Olypics and created under the direction of Armand Mevis and Linda Van Deursen for the visual identity of Museum Boijmans van Beunningen in Rotterdam. Pesko also showed the typeface ’Sol’, created as a continuation/exercise of Sol LeWitt’s 1974 project entitled ‘122 Variations on Incomplete Open Cubes’, which consisted of 122 views of unfinished cubes made from wooden planks. The word JACK, relating to Pesko’s inquiry referencing the mountainside chalet hotel featured in Kubrick’s 1980 film ‘The Shining’, was specially set in ‘Sol’.

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      photo © Sue Barr / Architectural Association

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      photo © Sue Barr / Architectural Association