Architexture

Archi / Texture
Damien Valero, with this facility, questions the rapprochement between architecture and body link that can be found already in the game of words: the backbone and the envelope of architecture or a body.
It also speaks of architecture of a body physiology.
could by the way, as Wölfflin said, «enumerate the opportunities that architecture physiognomoniques
can assimilate.» The historian sees some monuments such as faces.
The windows are the eyes, mouths doors to… But it is necessary to overcome this vision comparative somewhat naive and stereotyped.
Damien Valero will use plexiglass plates
thinking of the journey, the journey that extends from a cluster disorderly
living up to a right angle that does not cheat
a corner, then cubes. In this way the artist brings the viewer to understand the
re-construction through a staging of a process, a move, a transfer to the work by the material itself.
Archi/Texture
With this installation, Damien Valero questions the connections
between architecture and the body, already evident in the play on words of the title: the
“skeleton” framework and the
envelope of an architectural work or of a body. In physiology, one also speaks of the body’s architecture.
Moreover, one could, as Wölfflin said, “enumerate the physiognomic possibilities which architecture can assimilate”. The historian perceives
certain monuments as faces. The windows correspond to eyes, the doors to mouths… But it is necessary
to go beyond this somewhat naive and stereotyped comparative
vision.
Damien Valero uses sheets of plexiglas
to reflect on the progression, the pathway that stretches from a living disordered heap to a right angle which does not lie, a corner, then cubes. In this way, the
plastic artist draws the
spectator into an awareness of de
construction through the staging of a process, a shift, a mutation at work in matter itself..