beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

ANTTI LOVAG

Dominique Amouroux / Yves Gellie / Paul-Hervé Parsy

Antti Lovag (1920-2014) was a Hungarian architect who specialized in "bubble" houses and what he called "organic" architecture. He built very few buildings (fewer than ten). The Maison Bernard, on the French Riviera, is one of the finest examples of his work and tells the story of a fascinating relationship between the client, Pierre Bernard, and the architect. The book retraces this relationship and gives prominence to the photographs of Yves Gellie.
It was with the construction of the Maison Bernard that Antti Lovag truly defined his ideas about what a house should be, while simultaneously putting them into practice. Philosophical conception, construction method (abandoning plans in favor of models), spatial and material themes…
Today, the house has been renovated with the intervention of architect Odile Decq in collaboration with Isabelle Bernard (Pierre Bernard's daughter), respecting the architect's choices: the specifications and the decision to renovate through color, to employ artisans as Antti Lovag and Pierre Bernard had done… An endowment fund and artist residencies have been established there.

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Human version

Yves Gellie

Robots. The mere mention of this word is enough to conjure up a whole world of imagination, nurtured since Mary Shelley by a literature soon recognized as science fiction, and sustained by a countless filmography. In 2008, Yves Gellie began visiting major scientific laboratories around the world developing humanoid robotics programs. He discovered the universe in which these android avatars take shape, and thus come to life, destined, among other things, for the military, healthcare, and personal assistance sectors. Reality often surpasses fiction, and the photographs he brings back from his investigations in the research environment are true portraits—often excluding human presence—taken within the laboratory setting, the primordial garden where a new species is being born. Paradoxically, the concerns of researchers today converge with those imagined by science fiction; In 2007, the Korean parliament drew inspiration from the work of Isaac Asimov to formalize a series of laws establishing the relationship between humans and robots !

Conceived as a true artist's book, the reader discovers, after a brief introduction, Yves Gellie's photographs reproduced in large format, followed by an interview between the photographer and the philosopher Jean-Michel Besnier.

This book was published with the support of the agnès b. Endowment Fund and the company Fiber.

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