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Massimiliano Fuksas and the conflict

By David Assael — Filed under: Architects ,
 

This morning we had the honor of interviewing Massimiliano Fuksas at the chilean Biennale.

It was a great interview, along with others we conducted during this last month, that we are going to publish soon, so be ready.

After the interview, we continued talking down the hall with Mr Fuksas about the conception of his projects, and all of a sudden he asks “can i draw it?” and while i was looking for some paper, he just took out his pencil and started drawing on a column at the museum where the Biennale is being held. On the above picture you can see the relation between Fuksas’s mind and heart, on which according to his explanation the importance is on the space between them: the conflict. Something very interesting that i can’t explain here, but i hope that you can understand from the interview.

After that it came the funny part, as the museum staff noticed this “graffiti” and freaked out, since the Contemporary Art Museum is an ancient building. Some wanted to erase it, some wanted to frame it. But it’s still there, and will stay until the Biennale ends next weekend.

 

18 comments »

Agentvlin says:

I understand the urgency to get an idea out, but to draw on someone else building IS graffiti. Very arrogant.

 
# November 1, 2008 at 23:39
Tom in London says:

why is it an honour to interview Fuksas? I can see it might be an honour to interview Nelson Mandela, but…..Fuksas?

 
# November 2, 2008 at 05:39

Why not write on the walls? I think there are a lot of great ideas that were lost because they weren’t handy to write down. Personally, I think the best ideas are written on arms, walls, napkins, etc. Also, what on earth is Sol Lewitt doing then?

 
# November 2, 2008 at 19:20
Hamster says:

Nice attitude Fuksas!

 
# November 2, 2008 at 21:54
MZ says:

About the value of Graffiti:

1. if it creates more value than it destroys, I considere it ART
2. if it destroys more than it creates, I considere it VANDALISM

In this case: I think case No.1. But you be the judge.

 
# November 3, 2008 at 05:02
aji says:

he made ‘conflicts’ among us…!!

 
# November 3, 2008 at 06:40
rl says:

“Very arrogant”.

as usual…

 
# November 3, 2008 at 07:35
freddy wolf says:

30.000 children a day die of hunger. Nobody’s arrogant. A man draws on a column of a building (and oww,with a pencil!!!) and that’s arrogant. A waste of time, these idiotic conversations.

 
# November 3, 2008 at 09:00
xing says:

see what does that column say.

 
# November 3, 2008 at 10:34

I look forward to the interview, but more importantly do you think they’ll carve out that section of the column and offer it up for sale on ebay? I’ll bid

 
# November 3, 2008 at 10:46
AP says:

perhaps fuksas asked the column what it wanted to be, and perhaps the column replied, “a sketchpad.”

 
# November 3, 2008 at 18:01
from london says:

he’s just arrogant: he sais nothing and does ugly and meaningless sketches(that’s the polite version), if you want to double check go and work “with” him (you really want to kill yourselves for noithing)… if you can’t do that, just trust me

 
# November 4, 2008 at 06:31
v says:

Grande architetto Fuksas!!!

 
# November 4, 2008 at 17:45
Eddie says:

It was too much? Who dies he think he is? Le Corbusier? or maybe Picasso?

 
# November 5, 2008 at 15:23
Eddie says:

It was too much… Who dies he think he is? Le Corbusier? or maybe Picasso?

 
# November 5, 2008 at 15:24
rl says:

“A waste of time, these idiotic conversations.”

life is beautiful and world is wonderful
when you observe it from the camera of your iphone.

 
# November 5, 2008 at 18:34
marcello lippi says:

owww fuksas, ma chi sei tu? che scrivi sul murro. va fan culo a te

 
# February 3, 2009 at 22:50
tom says:

hey fuksus, go clean up the mess you made on the wall. i can expect that from a child, but a grown man?

 
# March 27, 2009 at 16:27

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