Overview
Prototype IV, 2021
Marc Leschelier is a French sculptor and architect based in Paris.
He designs and self-builds architectures without function, called pre-architectures, in unmarked spaces, sculpture parks or any situation exempt from urban regulations. While inventing an architectural genre, Leschelier announces the death of his discipline and its potential renewal through the empty, skeletal appearance of his constructions. This singular absence of use redirects architecture towards another form of expression: construction as a metalanguage. The work expresses itself through the development of anarchist constructive principles, systematically using official building materials against themselves, in order to conceive a fundamentally independent architectural form.
Marc Leschelier was a fellow of the Villa Medici in 2017-2018. Since then, he has exhibited his work in solo and group shows and at international fairs. He created his first demountable pavilion in 2023, which he exhibited at Design Miami Paris with Ketabi Bourdet gallery. Previously, his work has been shown at Art Brussels in 2023 with Everyday Gallery, at Sized Los Angeles during Frieze in 2022, at the Salone Del Mobile in 2021, at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Tallinn Art Biennale in 2020. Over the past five years, he has built nine permanent or ephemeral pavilions, two of them are public works installed in sculpture parks in Belgium and France.
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Partition classique pour Design Miami/Paris
Le salon de design s'installe dans la capitale au sein d'un somptueux hôtel particulier, proposant du mobilier de haut calibre visant le public de Paris + par Art Basel.Alexandre Crochet, The Art Newspaper, 19 October 2023 -
Le Paris de l'art en quatre outsiders
Dans le sillage de Paris + par Art Basel, qui se tient au Grand Palais Ephémère, les foires parallèles, d'Asia Now à Offscreen, de Design Miami Paris à Paris Internationale, multiplient les propositions.Valérie Duponchelle et Béatrice de Rochebouët, Le Figaro, 20 October 2023 -
Crumpled cement drapes over function-free pavilion X in Paris
Pavilion X's Dynamic dance with MaterialityChristina Petridou, Designboom, 14 November 2023 -
Marc Leschelier's exploration of architecture as a metalanguage, with Pavilion X
The Paris-based architect and sculptor built Pavilion X, a demountable structure that exists at the intersection of sculpture and architecture, which is a structure sans function.Almas Sadique, Stir world, 3 December 2023
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