Paul-Hervé Parsy
Conservateur
Après avoir étudié le droit et les sciences politiques et une courte période d’enseignement, Paul-Hervé Parsy se passionne pour l’art contemporain. Il commence à organiser des expositions à Lille, devient conseiller au ministère de la culture en 1982, conservateur en chef des collections contemporaines au Centre Pompidou (1988), directeur du musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg (1998), puis administrateur du château d’Oiron (2001) et de la villa Cavrois (2012). Il a publié de nombreux catalogues ou textes sur l’art ou l’architecture.
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.
ANTTI LOVAG
27×30 cm, 196 pages, approximately 200 four-color reproductions, hardcover
Out of print
ISBN: 978-2-843140-52-5