Honor where honor is due. That's what the curators of the Center Pompidou in Paris thought and are celebrating Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, in a large exhibition until August 3rd. Like no other, the architect, urban planning theorist, sculptor and painter, who died 50 years ago, laid the foundations for how we live and furnish ourselves today. What we call “modernity” would be unimaginable without his works and thoughts!
How obsessed he was with the law of proportion between the building and its inhabitants, which he developed as the principle of “human dimensions” and the basis for his entire work. The average man, Le Corbusier stated, was 183 cm tall, 226 cm with his arms stretched high. Appropriately, the exhibition of works shown in Gallery 2 is also called “Mesures de l'Homme”.
You can see an interestingly prepared cross-section of the extensive work of the Swiss-born artist who took French citizenship in 1930: a total of 300 paintings, sculptures, sketches, architectural drawings, models, objects, films, photographs and documents. Enough “material” to completely immerse yourself in the world of Le Corbusier for a morning or afternoon and to better understand the range of his intellectual and very practical engagement with houses and humanism. That sounds like a stimulating pleasure, n'est-ce pas ?!
All information about the exhibition can be found here .
Photos: FLC, ADAGP, Paris 2015; Center Pompidou/Dist. RMN-GP/B. Prevost; ADAGP, Paris 2015
