{"id":3459,"date":"2013-10-22T08:18:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T07:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2013-10-22T08:18:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T07:18:34","slug":"open-lecture-arne-quinze-cities-like-open-air-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/2013\/10\/22\/open-lecture-arne-quinze-cities-like-open-air-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Lecture :: Arne Quinze :: Cities Like Open Air Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Open Lecture Series 2013\/2014<\/li>\n<li>Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre \/ M055<\/li>\n<li>Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday\u00a023rd October; 6PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3460 alignnone\" alt=\"131023_flyer_ArneQuinze\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/131023_flyer_ArneQuinze.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/131023_flyer_ArneQuinze.jpg 440w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/131023_flyer_ArneQuinze-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Arne Quinze was born in 1971 in Belgium and lives and works in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium and Shanghai, China. In the eighties he began working as a graffiti artist but never finished an official art education. Quinze\u00a0creates large and small sculptures, drawings, paintings, and large-scale installations. Smaller works, sketches, and\u00a0drawings are the basis and research for his large installations. Recurring fundamentals in\u00a0his oeuvre are the use of multiple types of wood, including salvaged wood;\u00a0electrical colours in fluorescent paint; and themes referring to social\u00a0interaction, communication, and urbanism. For a while he has been undertaking research towards large steel installations.<\/p>\n<p>What drives Quinze is the belief in the possible realization of an idealistic society where all individuals communicate and interact, aiming to bring people together and push them into a\u00a0vigorous dialogue. In his urban vision, communal activities flourish and social cohesion is the norm. His installations are\u00a0built to provoke reaction and to intervene in the daily life of passersby confronted with his sculptures. His unconventional public installations have challenged perceptions in the city centers of Belgium (Cityscape, The Sequence), Germany (The Traveller), France (Camille, Rock Strangers), Lebanon (The Visitor), China (Red Beacon) and the USA (Uchronia, Timegate), among others. In every culture Quinze comes across, he unravels physical processes, drawing inspiration for his\u00a0oeuvre, and is fueled by overwhelming optimism. Every new creative breed captures his research and study\u00a0on interaction, and urban movement expressing the\u00a0continuously evolution of human beings and their surroundings. Besides building architectural\u00a0sculptures, he creates complex art pieces and video installations inscribing his\u00a0vision in society of how people see themselves and society. Works such as Bidonvilles, Stilthouses, Chaos and My Home My House My Stilthouse, and My Secret Garden have been shown in several exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Lecture Series 2013\/2014 Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre \/ M055 Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus Wednesday\u00a023rd October; 6PM Arne Quinze was born in 1971 in Belgium and lives and works in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium and Shanghai, China. In the eighties he began working as a graffiti artist but never finished an official art education. 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