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REAL REAL REAL REAL ESTATE ARCHITECTURE LABORATORY Book launch and exhibition opening REAL REAL THREE FOUND MODELS by Hesselbrand 26.07.2016 REAL REAL
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“Space is invisible. It has no form. To understand space, the surfaces that define it must be liberated from their meaning, symbolism and materiality. This requires a process of abstraction, drawing out the essential qualities of everyday spaces and representing them as ‘spatial readymades.’ Hesselbrand’s three found models are a manual for how to read space.” Excerpt from Three Found Models The REAL foundation is pleased to announce its forthcoming publication, Three Found Models by London-based architects Hesselbrand. The publication will accompany Hesselbrand’s exhibition of the same name, which features large-scale works. The book launch and exhibition opening will take place at the Revue Gallery on August 5, 2016. A further press release will follow with exhibition and pubilcation images. Three Found Models has been executed by Hesselbrand in collaboration with the REAL foundation and OK-RM, and includes photography by Max Creasy.
Three Found Models: Model 3 under construction.
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PUBLISHER’S STATEMENT Hesselbrand’s work contains no fantasy, no illusion, no nostalgia. It is grounded in reality, in a way that is propositional, positive and present. It speaks to the here and now, and intervenes in the fabric of the banal (the neglected and commonplace) to make us look again. These models of accidental intimacy in confined spaces are at the core of what it means to live together. FROM THE PUBLICATION Movement is dislocating, but not alienating. Travel creates spaces of exception, inescapable and without location. It is speed that brings us together. Being nowhere is what allows you to be here. Privacy is the act of withdrawing from a public space. This is not the same as being alone. Liminal occupation is to be concealed in plain sight, to remain part of the group even as we are moving away. Approaching strangers demands a social excuse. There must be a reason for contact. A distant object that cannot be approached, a pleasing but uninhabitable view, allows us to wait at its edge together. FURTHER DETAILS For all interview requests, image permissions and other enquiries please email
[email protected] or call +44 (0)758 530 2221. Twitter /FB @RealFdn
THREE FOUND MODELS by Hesselbrand has been executed in collaboration with REAL and OK-RM, photographed by Max Creasy, copyrighted in 2016 and with the ISBN 978-0-9935474-2-3. Editor Jack Self (
[email protected]) Design OK-RM, London
REAL is a cultural institute and research platform based in London. It publishes the Real Review magazine and co-curated the British Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. HESSELBRAND is an architecture practice based in London and Oslo. It is founded by Martin Brandsdal, Magnus Casselbrant and Jesper Henriksson. It is focused on the relationship between physical form and its impact on our daily lives. Through research-based design, the work challenges existing conventions through architectural proposals. Their architecture, academic work, and collaborative projects are part of an ambition to bridge the gap between theory and praxis. OK-RM is a London-based design studio in collaborative practice with artists, curators, editors, architects, designers and institutions.
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