Architectural fictions
Playing with the confusion between background and form, support and paint, like Daniel Buren, whose student he was, Krijn de Koning (born in 1963 in Amsterdam) transforms public space into pictorial space. Sometimes submerged under swathes of bright colors, transformed into colored surfaces, sometimes colonized by modular structures – Farbenstrukturen(Colorful structures) – architectural spaces dissolve: a strange pictorial and sculptural contamination in the architectural field, but also sometimes in parks and urban space, as visitors to the next Voyage à Nantes (from July 2 to September 11) will be able to see. Bordering on the absurd in a clever play of inversions, displacements and confusions (between voids and solids, interior and exterior, reality and fiction), the labyrinthine structures dividing space into nested volumes by the Dutch artist lead to a double experimentation: that of the power of amplification (of perception and emotions) and abstraction (through the erasure, the burying of forms) of color, and that of mise en abyme (of architecture within architecture, of cube within cube), blurring the boundaries between the real and the virtual.
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Stéphanie Dulout